Marilyn Dedmon v. Carolyn Staley, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as the Pulaski County Circuit Clerk

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• holding an employer, under certain circumstances, can be liable where the formal decision maker is not the person who harbored an unlawful motive to terminate the employee
• explaining an employer cannot avoid liability by using a “purportedly independent person or committee as the decisionmaker where the decisionmaker merely serves as the conduit, vehicle, or rubber stamp by which another achieves his or her unlawful design”
• plaintiff argued the county clerk who terminated her served as the cat's paw for an immediate supervisor
• Pulaski County Circuit Clerk and her subordinate

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