H. G. Adair Printing Co. v. Ames

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• Attorney General has the “power to appoint the necessary deputies or assistants to aid in carrying out those [enumerated] duties”
• legislator employed to assist Attorney General was prohibited by separation of powers doctrine from dual employment, but if he had affirmatively pled that his duties were merely ministerial a different result might have followed, as explained in Capuzi, supra
• “It is, of course, easily seen that in a great state such as this the multiplicity of duties of the Attorney General forbid personal attention to all of them. He must, and does, have power to appoint the necessary deputies or assistants to aid in carrying out those duties.”
• “It is, of course, easily seen that in a great State such as this the multiplicity of duties of the Attorney General forbid [sic] personal attention to all of them. He must, and does, have power to appoint the necessary deputies or assistants to aid in carrying out those duties”

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