Michael v. Basso v. City of West Covina Herman R. Fast, City Manager Ronald E. Holmes, Chief of Police West Covina Police Department

86 F.3d 1161 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Michael V. BASSO, Plaintiff-Appellant v. CITY OF WEST COVINA; Herman R. Fast, City Manager; Ronald E. Holmes, Chief of Police; West Covina Police Department, Defendants-Appellees. No. 94-56592. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Submitted May 6, 1996. Decided June 3, 1996. Before: HALL, O'SCANNLAIN, and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM * 2 Plaintiff-Appellant Michael Basso was dismissed from his job as a police officer for the City of West Covina because of five incidents of misconduct. He brought a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against West Covina, Ronald Holmes, the police chief, and Herman Fast, the city manager, claiming that they denied his procedural and substantive due process rights during the termination process. 3 Basso was given both a pretermination and a posttermination hearing. At the posttermination hearing West Covina's Personnel Commission found that the City did not adequately…