Marisa A. Soderstrum, Cross-Appellee v. Town of Grand Isle, Cross-Appellant

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the personal secretary of a sheriff is not protected from patronage dismissal and conducting no Pickering balancing
• holding that it was permissible to not reappoint a secretary who was the wife of the outgoing police chief's nephew because the outgoing police chief was a political opponent of the incoming police chief
• finding that the plaintiff was a confidential employee and declining to address whether plaintiff was also a policymaker
• holding that a police chief’s secretary was a confidential employee
• referring to \realistic understanding of the confidential relationship between secretaries and their bosses\
• referring to “realistic understanding of the confidential relationship between secretaries and their bosses”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).