Legal Opinion
Horton v. Taylor
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 11, 1985No. 84-1565PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
The issue before us is whether five road-grader operators in a small, rural Arkansas county were wrongly fired because they were Republicans in a Democratic administration. The district court concluded they were not, finding a small-county exception to the rule of Elrod v. Burns, 427 U.S. 347, 96 S.Ct. 2673, 49 L.Ed.2d 547 (1976), and Branti v. Finkel, 445 U.S. 507, 100 S.Ct. 1287, 63 L.Ed.2d 574 (1980), which prohibits patronage dismissals except where party afiliation is necessary to do a job effectively. We conclude that the operators were not excepted from…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. DoyleSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Pickering v. Board of Ed. of Township High School Dist. 205, Will Cty.Supreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Connick Ex Rel. Parish of Orleans v. MyersSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Perry v. SindermannSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Elrod v. BurnsSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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3Cited by61 opinions
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- Dick Dickeson and Beth Weaver v. Deloyd Quarberg and the Board of County Commissioners of Hot Springs County, WyomingCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1988
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