SENRA v. TOWN OF SMITHFIELD

No. 12-1600.

715 F.3d 34 (2013)

Paul F. SENRA, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. The TOWN OF SMITHFIELD; Dennis Finlay, individually and in his official capacity; Peter Scorpio, individually and in his official capacity; Susan Pilkington in her official capacity, Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

May 3, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keven A. McKenna for appellant.

Marc DeSisto , with whom Edmund L. Alves, Jr. , Joseph Cavanagh III , DeSisto Law and Blish & Cavanagh, LLC were on brief, for appellee.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, HOWARD, Circuit Judge, and CASPER, District Judge.


CASPER, District Judge.

Appellant Paul Senra ("Senra"), a former probationary public employee of the Town of Smithfield, Rhode Island ("Town"), alleges that he received insufficient procedural due process in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment in relation to the termination of his employment, and additionally that the Town violated art. III, § 7 of the Rhode Island Constitution, and the Rhode Island Whistleblowers' Protection Act, R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-50...

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