D.C. Lottery Board Worker Gets Due Process Win on Fourth Appeal

Washington, D.C., is liable for violating the due process rights of a deceased lottery board security administrator who was forced out of his job in 1997 through a series of personnel moves by the board’s former executive director, the D.C. Circuit ruled Friday.

Frederick King was acting as a final policymaker when he utilized his authority under an emergency budget support law to create a vacant position into which to transfer James A. Thompson Jr. in 1996, the court said.

King, who had unfettered authority under the Budget Support Temporary Act of 1995 as the head of the District of ...