Gentry v. Lowndes County MS

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• 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

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