Duckson v. South Carolina

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the nonmovant cannot rely on conjecture or speculation to survive summary judgment
• examining whether employees were “privy to sensitive information” in assessing the intimacy of the working relationship
• “[B]eing personally accountable to someone other than the elected official means that the employee does not serve solely at the pleasure of the elected official, but of others as well.”
• \a person can be a member of an elected official's personal staff and not be either a policymaker or an immediate adviser\
• courts look at “whether the person in the position at issue is personally accountable to only that elected official” (emphasis added)
• suggesting policymaking is “not pertinent to the personal staff exception”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).