Linda Jenkins v. Frederick Tucker

MURPHY, Circuit Judge.

Linda Jenkins was reduced to part time employment as the bailiff in a county courthouse shortly after the election of Frederick Tucker as presiding circuit judge. Jenkins sued Tucker and the county sheriff, alleging that she had been unlawfully retaliated against for supporting the losing candidate for presiding judge. The district court 1 granted summary judgment to the sheriff but denied it to Tucker, who filed this interlocutory appeal. We affirm.

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Linda Jenkins began working as a deputy sheriff in Macon County, Missouri in 1998. Within a year she was working two part…