Bremner v. Hendrickson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the administrative assistant to the County Deputy Auditor was subject to political dismissal because she controlled the lines of communication of a political actor with discretionary authority
• holding that “qualified immunity applies only to an official’s liability in his individual capacity
• explaining that the question of defendant’s purpose in firing the plaintiffs is a question of intent, which the court was without jurisdiction to consider on summary judgment motion pertaining to denial of qualified immunity
• clarifying that even though Branti held that courts should look to the nature of a position, rather than to the labels “policy-making” or “confidential,” that this nomenclature continued to be employed.
• observing that a “chief deputy sheriff of process division who supervises all departments of a sheriff's office working on one floor of the building housing the office,” like one of the plaintiffs in Elrod, “clearly fall[s] outside of the Branti exception”
• affirming denial of qualified immunity to group of “governmental middle managers” absent further evidence of politically relevant discretion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).