No. 17-1120

ALAN CLUKEY,

Plaintiff, Appellant,

v.

TOWN OF CAMDEN,

Defendant, Appellee.

APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE

[Hon. John H. Rich, III, Magistrate Judge]

Before

Howard, Chief Judge, Thompson and Kayatta, Circuit Judges.

David Glasser for appellant. Frederick F. Costlow, with whom Heidi J. Hart and Richardson, Whitman, Large & Badger were on brief, for appellee.

June 25, 2018 THOMPSON, Circuit Judge. In 2007, the Town of Camden, Maine moved its police department's dispatch operations to the Knox County Sheriff's Department in the Town of Rockland. As a result, Camden laid off its three police dispatchers, including Plaintiff Alan Clukey who had been working as a Camden Police Department dispatcher for 31 years. Clukey sued Camden in 2011 pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming Camden deprived him of his procedural due pr