The Court found that although the respondent was deprived of property under color of state law, he had not sufficiently alleged a violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The only aspect of Parratt that remains good law is that a claimant must prove any possible state remedies are constitutionally deficient in order to proceed with a 1983 action.

The year after Parratt, the Court decided Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co., another case where the adequacy of the procedure was held to be insufficient and a denial of the petitioner's due process rights.

Logan had filed a complaint with Illinois's Fair Employment Practices Commission, the exclusive forum under state law for the resolution of his claim that Zimmerman had fired him after a month primarily because of his disability.

His timely filed claim was administratively dismissed with prejudice after the commission accidentally scheduled a required fact-finding conference five days after the deadline for doing so.