City of Hughes Springs v. Lips

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the issue “should ordinarily be left for a jury to determine” but may be resolved as a matter of law when the position responsibilities are clearly outlined by law
• stating that the issue “should ordinarily be left for a jury to determine” but may be resolved as a matter of law when the position responsibilities are clearly outlined by law
• “One can only assume that individual members will flesh out the meaning of [the board’s mandate] with their own policy, and inevitably political, interpretations of what is in the best interest of the public.”
• “Because [plaintiffs] position ... was clearly defined by state statute and city ordinance ... the district court’s determination as a matter of law of the poli-cymaking status of [plaintiffs] position was proper....”
• appellees did not contest that mayor was acting under color of state law when mayor made decision not to reappoint member of Board of Zoning Ap- peals to that position
• mayor’s at-will appointee to city zoning board had no free-speech right against removal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).