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· 1/17/1997

Denise Carver v. Mildred Dennis, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as County Court Clerk of Jackson County, Tennessee

Citations

  • 104 F.3d 847
  • 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 686
  • 1997 WL 14268

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that 7 where an employee “was fired [solely] for announcing her intention to take her boss’s 8 office,” the employee did not speak on a matter of public concern
  • termination of deputy county clerk, who ran against the clerk and “was trying to take [her boss’] job,” was “neutral in terms of the First Amendment”

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Judges: Keith, Siler, Batchelder

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