Bettye Keener Stegmaier, Etc. v. Jerry Pete Trammell, Etc.

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• holding that a deputy clerk is confidential because, in the course of representing the Circuit Clerk, he may subject the Circuit Clerk to civil liability and fines
• holding that a deputy clerk is confidential because, in the course of representing the Circuit Clerk, he may subject the Circuit Clerk to civil liability and fines
• holding confidential employee could be discharged for failing to support elected officeholder’s candidacy under Elrod
• holding that a deputy circuit clerk was a confidential employee
• finding deputy circuit clerk falls within exception as a “confidential employee”
• policymakers may be identified, in part, “as public employees whose responsibilities require more than simple ministerial competence, ... and whose discretion in performing duties ... is not severely limited by statute, regulation, or policy determinations made by supervisors”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).