5th Circuit Reinstates Fired Fire Chief’s Due Process Claim

Mealey's (September 7, 2017, 9:01 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — The fire chief of a Louisiana volunteer department may proceed with his procedural due process claim over his firing, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Sept. 5, finding that a trial court erred when it ruled at the summary judgment stage that an unexecuted contract was inadmissible (David S. Mauer v. Nicholas J. Muscarello, Sr., et al., No. 16-30673, 5th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 17142)....