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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1983', '§ 1983', '§ 1983', '§ 1983', '§ 1738', '§ 1738', '§ 1983', '§ 1738', '§ 1983', '§ 1738']

VIRGIL E. TOMPKINS, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT OF LIVERPOOL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, JAMES JOHNSON, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS ACTING SUPERINTENDENT OF LIVERPOOL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, DENNIS JONES, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS COORDINATOR OF PERSONNEL OF LIVERPOOL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, DR. PAUL DAY, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS CHIEF MEDICAL INSPECTOR FOR THE LIVERPOOL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, F. ROBERT KOLCH, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS CLERK OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE LIVERPOOL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, ARTHUR D. LITTLE, BRUCE C. VOJT, EMILIO CHASSE, DORIS ANN CONNOR, DAVID A. FILES, MARIE HARTWELL, RICHARD J. HAYKO, TONI ANNE MORRIS, LLOYD J. SPAFFORD, AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE LIVERPOOL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE LIVERPOOL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK, AND ARNOLD DETTOR, AS HEARING OFFICER APPOINTED PURSUANT TO NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION LAW, DEFENDANTS-APPELLEES
On remand from the Supreme Court pursuant to an order vacating the judgment and remanding for consideration in light of Migra v. Warren City School Dist. Bd. of Educ., 465 U.S. 75, 79 L. Ed. 2d 56, 104 S. Ct. 892, 52 U.S.L.W. 4151 (U.S. Jan. 23, 1984). Judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, Robert J. Miner, Judge, is reversed and remanded for consideration in light of state law regarding the preclusive effect of prior state court proceedings. Originally Argued: November 19, 1982 and Decided March 29, 1983; Remanded from the United States Supreme Court: February 21, 1984
Feinberg, Chief Judge, Oakes, Circuit Judge, and Tenney, District Judge*fn*
TENNEY, D.J...
This action is before the Court pursuant to an order of the Supreme Court, Tompkins v. Gargiul, 465 U.S. 1016, 79 L. Ed. 2d 670, 104 S. Ct. 1263, 52 U.S.L.W. 3610 (U.S. Feb. 21, 1984), which vacated our prior judgment and remanded the case for consideration in light of Migra v. Warren City School Dist. Bd. of Educ., 465 U.S. 75, 79 L. Ed. 2d 56, 104 S. Ct. 892,, 52 U.S.L.W. 4151 (U.S. Jan. 23, 1984). We, in turn, reverse and remand for consideration in light of New York law regarding the preclusive effect of prior state court proceedings.
Early in the course of the state proceedings, Gargiul commenced this action in federal district court under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Supp. V 1981 ("§ 1983"), challenging both her suspension without pay and her dismissal on the ground that defendants impermissibly infringed on her right to substantiate due process, and particularly, on her right to privacy. In this action, she names as defendants not only the Board and Dettor, who were defendants in the state court proceedings, but also the members of the Board and various officials and employees of the Liverpool Central School District, in their individual as well as their official capacities. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of defendants and dismissed the action on the ground that plaintiff had failed to state a claim on which relief could be granted.
In our prior opinion, we considered, inter alia, whether the prior state proceedings barred Gargiul's present claims under § 1983, and we affirmed in part and reversed in part. We applied what was then the law in this circuit concerning res judicata and collateral estoppel in § 1983 actions, and we found that Gargiul's claims regarding her dismissal were precluded under collateral estoppel, but that the two claims challenging her suspension were not barred. Following Lombard v. Board of Educ., 502 F.2d 631, 635-37 (2d Cir. 1975), and its progeny, we stated that, notwithstanding the federal full faith and credit statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1738 (1982) ("§ 1738"),*fn1 a prior state court proceeding does not bar federal court consideration of constitutional claims not actually litigated and determined in the state court proceeding. Applying this rule, we first found that the suspension claim which was never considered on the merits in any prior proceeding -- judicial or administrative -- was not barred. Further, with respect to the other suspension claim, we followed federal law in determining the effect to be given to a prior administrative decision on the merits. See Mitchell v. National Broadcasting Co., 553 F.2d 265, 276 (2d Cir. 1977). We said that, where there had been no subsequent judicial review, an adverse administrative decision on the merits of a claim would not preclude Gargiul's litigation of the same claim under § 1983.
In Migra v. Warren City School Dist. Bd. of Educ., supra, the Supreme Court determined that § 1738 requires that federal courts afford prior state court proceedings the same claim preclusive effect in § 1983 actions that the state courts themselves would afford those proceedings. In reviewing Gargiul's claim in light of this holding, we find that all of them fall squarely within the Migra rule. This is not a case in which there were no prior proceedings at the state level, or in which the state proceedings were not judicial, cf. McDonald v. City of West Branch, Mich., 466 U.S. 284, 80 L. Ed. 2d 302, 104 S. Ct. 1799, 52 U.S.L.W. 4457 (1984) (§ 1738 does not require that the federal courts give preclusive effect to arbitration proceedings since they are not judicial). Rather, this is a case in which there have been two proceedings in state court, during which appellant raised all of the claims now presented in the federal forum.
The judgment of the district court is reversed and remanded to the district court for proceedings ...