Carter v. Stephens

How courts have described this case

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• affirming dismissal § 1983 claim brought against a mayor for termination of a city council employee in alleged retaliation against the employee's exercise of her First Amendment rights, where authority to terminate rested with the city council, not the mayor
• supervisor “reviewing [plaintiff’s] time sheets, requesting keys to her office to inspect records kept there, or installing a security camera in the hall outside her office” not adverse employment actions
• “Because [the mayor] was not the decisionmaker, he cannot be held liable under § 1983 for the City Council's decisions regarding [the plaintiff’s] terms and conditions of employment . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).