Edward E. Rice, Cross-Appellee v. Ohio Department of Transportation

How courts have described this case

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• finding that administrative assistants to the Ohio Director of Transportation are not protected from patronage dismissals, even though they did not work closely with the Director
• “[A] position that controls the lines of communication of a political actor must be inherently political.”
• “[T]he test is not whether party affiliation and support are essential to the effective performance of the public office involved; the test, under Branti, is whether these are ‘appropriate’ requirements.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).