Knapp v. Chevron USA, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the First Amendment protects against both “a firing or a failure to reappoint”
• concluding it is a “major factor” that state law permits an appointed second deputy to ascend to the partisan elected office of recorder of deeds, though that statutory scheme is “not outcome determinative”
• “If a free election is to have any meaning in a democratic society, we must respect the political choices that are expressed by the voters.”
• Deputy Recorder of Deeds functions are non-political
• Deputy Recorder of Deeds functions are non-political

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).