Legal Opinion
Susan Hobler Linda Southwell v. Gary Brueher, in His Individual Capacity
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 8, 2003No. 00-35589PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge.
This appeal tests whether an elected county prosecutor must retain the at-will confidential secretaries hired by the predecessor he defeated, who supported the predecessor politically.
Facts
The firings of Susan Hobler and Linda Southwell, at-will secretaries in the Adams County prosecutor’s office, occurred after a countywide election that replaced then-prosecutor David Sandhaus. Adams County is a lightly populated rural county in southeastern Washington. The county seat is in Ritzville, a little town southwest of Spokane, southeast of Wenatchie, and northeast of…
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