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Stamboly v. Bd. of Educ. of the Rome City Sch. Dist.

Rejection of Tenured School Employee's Property, Liberty Interest Claims Explained

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MEMORANDUM-DECISION AND ORDERI. INTRODUCTION Pending before the Court is Defendants’ motion for summary judgment pursuant to Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. See generally Dkt. No. 21.II. BACKGROUNDPlaintiff has been an employee of the Rome City School District (the “District”) since 2003, initially serving as Principal of Strough Middle School before becoming the District’s Athletic Director in 2006. See Dkt. No. 1, Complaint at 6. At the time of the alleged events, Defendant Blake was the District’s Superintendent, and Defendant Conestabile was the District’s Human Resource Director. See id. at 5.According to Plaintiff, prior to the start of the 2016-2017 school year, the District’s former High School Assistant Principal, Riccardo A. Ripa, visited Plaintiff regarding his daughter’s upcoming class schedule. See id. at

11-12. At the time, Plaintiff’s daughter was a tenth-grade student at the District’s high school. See id. at 12. During their conversation, Mr. Ripa recommended that Plaintiff’s daughter take chemistry with a different teacher than the one to whom she was originally assigned. See id. Plaintiff alleges that, at the time, he did not believe that Mr. Ripa was serious about changing his daughter’s class schedule; but, unbeknownst to Plaintiff, Mr. Ripa, using his own login credentials, accessed Plaintiff’s computer and changed Plaintiff’s daughter’s schedule. See Complaint at

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