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141127P.pdf   04/06/2015  Terry Draper  v.  City of Festus, Missouri
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  14-1127
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Smith and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Employment. City's denial of plaintiff's attorney's request to postpone a post-termination hearing did not deprive plaintiff of his Fourteenth Amendment right to procedural due process in the circumstances of the case; nor did it deprive him of his right to substantive due process; no error in granting defendants' motion for summary judgment on plaintiff's conspiracy claim; the undisputed facts establish that plaintiff's actions as City Administrator were, at least, misfeasance, and the City did not breach his contract by terminating him for the acts; decision to terminate plaintiff was not arbitrary, capricious or unreasonable and no violation of the Missouri Administrative Procedure Act occurred.