Elmer Cox v. Nueces County, Texas

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge.

Elmer Cox and Thomas Burnside appeal a summary judgment on their 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims. Finding no error, we affirm.

I

Cox and Burnside worked for the Nueces County Sheriffs Department: Burnside in the Patrol Division, Cox in the DEA Taskforce. They were re-assigned to the Nueces County Jail: Burnside on February 3, 2012, Cox on May 31, 2012. They contend the reassignments were based not on merit but on political disagreement; they allege that defendant Jim Kaelin, the sheriff, vengefully transferred them for failing to support his re-election.

In early November…