Gentry v. Lowndes County MS

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a road manager was exempt, but that regardless, the defendants would have been entitled to qualified immunity because a sufficiently analogous situation had never been addressed
• considering the duty of \preparing a budget\ as one factor in finding that a county administrator may be subjected to patronage dismissal
• granting qualified immunity to newly elected county officials who terminated plaintiffs’ jobs as road manager and county administrator
• reversing a district court denial of a motion to dismiss because the Fifth Circuit found the county road manager and administer positions were not protected from patronage dismissal
• county road manager, second highest non-elected county management position, may be fired for political opposition
• qualified immunity may be warranted in “political patronage” cases where controlling authority does not settle propriety of dismissal in “sufficiently analogous” situations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Bernice Garza v. Omar Escobar, Jr.
  Fifth Circuit· 2020-08-28· cited 57×
• Jordan v. Ector County
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-02-01· cited 56×
• Mary Lou Smith Greg Smith v. Honorable Andrew N. Frye, Jr.
  Fourth Circuit· 2007-05-18· cited 41×
• Wiggins v. Lowndes County MS
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-03-15· cited 24×
• Jay Embry v. City of Calumet City
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-11-26· cited 15×
• Maldonado v. Rodriguez
  Fifth Circuit· 2019-08-06· cited 10×
• Poindexter v. Board of County Commissioners
  Tenth Circuit· 2008-11-26· cited 7×
• Harris v. City of Balch Springs
  N.D. Texas· 2014-03-28· cited 7×
• Randleman v. Johnson
  M.D. North Carolina· 2016-02-17· cited 5×
• Garza v. Escobar
  S.D. Texas· 2019-04-30· cited 5×
• Lloyd v. Birkman
  W.D. Texas· 2015-09-02· cited 4×
• Maldonado v. Rodriguez
  S.D. Texas· 2017-05-15· cited 1×
• Smith v. Frye
  Fourth Circuit· 2007-05-18
• Haddock v. Tarrant Cty
  Fifth Circuit· 2021-02-01

Cites

31 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Pickering v. Board of Ed. of Township High School Dist. 205, Will Cty.
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 6,021×
• Connick Ex Rel. Parish of Orleans v. Myers
  Supreme Court· 1983-04-20· cited 5,562×
• Hope v. Pelzer
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-27· cited 4,957×
• Elrod v. Burns
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-28· cited 4,553×
• Branti v. Finkel
  Supreme Court· 1980-03-31· cited 1,881×
• Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1990-08-30· cited 1,236×
• Billy J. Hale v. Carl Townley, Billy J. Hale v. Carl Townley
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-03-23· cited 348×
• Cozzo v. Tangipahoa Parish Council-President Government
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-01-10· cited 337×
• William C. Ferguson v. Alvin I. Thomas
  Fifth Circuit· 1970-08-13· cited 333×
• Goodson v. City of Corpus Christi
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-01-26· cited 269×
• Oden v. Oktibbeha County MS
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-03-27· cited 205×
• Click v. Copeland
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-08-27· cited 151×
• Brady v. Fort Bend County
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-07-27· cited 130×
• Jimmie McBee v. Jim Hogg County, Texas and Gilbert Ybanez, Javier Alfonso Hinojosa v. Jim Hogg County, Texas
  Fifth Circuit· 1984-04-30· cited 130×
• Benny B. Barrett, Cross-Appellant v. Carl Thomas, Sheriff, Cross-Appellee
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-07-10· cited 112×
• Elizabeth Anna Duke v. North Texas State University
  Fifth Circuit· 1973-01-10· cited 102×
• Dr. Nolan L. Kinsey v. Salado Independent School District
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-01-03· cited 101×
• Bettye Keener Stegmaier, Etc. v. Jerry Pete Trammell, Etc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-07-02· cited 87×
• Elizabeth Marshall v. Porter County Plan Commission
  Seventh Circuit· 1994-09-30· cited 84×
• Chiu v. Plano Independent School District
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-07-24· cited 83×