Barfield v. Madison County, Miss.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that “although Madison County lacks the power to hire and fire, the County has some control in this area by allocating funds to the Sheriff to operate his department”
• refusing to consider qualified immunity under FLSA when defendant failed to cite support for its applicability
• county was joint employer of sheriffs deputies where county board of supervisors set budget for sheriffs department and rejected sheriffs annual budget requests for overtime
• finding state law negligence and conversion claims not preempted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).