Johnson v. Jefferson County Board of Health

How courts have described this case

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

• interpreting this phrase to allow discharge \at any time without cause or formal procedure\
• interpreting this phrase to allow discharge “at any time without cause or formal procedure”
• state cannot deny a “benefit to a person solely because of the exercise of constitutionally protected speech....”
• state cannot deny a \benefit to a person solely because of the exercise of constitutionally protected speech....\
• A county’s personnel rules “do not override the explicit statutory authority of the [official] to discharge [an employee].”
• “We conclude . . . that the . . . personnel rules, even though adopted by the board of health, do not override the explicit statutory authority of the board to discharge a public health officer appointed by the board.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).