Eric Miller v. City of Albuquerque Personnel Board

Title 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provides in pertinent part; “Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, or other proper proceeding for redress. This case involves the division heads of the City of Albuquerque New Mexico Transportation Department usurping all authority of the city’s Article X Charter, which provides procedures for weighing the conduct of an employee for discharge, § 3-1-1, App. 62a, by forging the director’s initials on eight (8) memorandums in violation of NMSA 1978, § 30-16-10(A), without The Chief Administrative