Nichols v. Hurley

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the nonmovant cannot rely on conjecture or speculation to survive summary judgment
• examining whether employees were “privy to sensitive information” in assessing the intimacy of the working relationship
• “[B]eing personally accountable to someone other than the elected official means that the employee does not serve solely at the pleasure of the elected official, but of others as well.”
• \a person can be a member of an elected official's personal staff and not be either a policymaker or an immediate adviser\
• courts look at “whether the person in the position at issue is personally accountable to only that elected official” (emphasis added)
• suggesting policymaking is “not pertinent to the personal staff exception”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

47 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Darlene Thomas v. International Business MacHines a New York Corporation Doing Business in the State of Oklahoma
  Tenth Circuit· 1995-02-21· cited 448×
• Oden v. Oktibbeha County MS
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-03-27· cited 205×
• Fitzgerald v. Corrections Corp. of America
  Tenth Circuit· 2005-04-11· cited 197×
• Darveau v. Detecon, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 2008-01-31· cited 159×
• Wanda Birch v. Cuyahoga County Probate Court John J. Donnelly, Presiding Judge
  Sixth Circuit· 2004-12-01· cited 114×
• Mickelson v. New York Life Insurance
  Tenth Circuit· 2006-08-28· cited 104×
• Kelley v. City of Albuquerque
  Tenth Circuit· 2008-09-17· cited 94×
• Jantzen v. Hawkins
  Tenth Circuit· 1999-08-31· cited 74×
• Handy v. Price
  Tenth Circuit· 1993-06-25· cited 56×
• William Ellington v. City of East Cleveland
  Sixth Circuit· 2012-08-06· cited 53×
• Salazar v. BUTTERBALL, LLC
  Tenth Circuit· 2011-07-05· cited 43×
• Scott Clews v. County of Schuylkill
  Third Circuit· 2021-08-30· cited 37×
• Cooke v. Rosenker
  District of Columbia· 2009-02-27· cited 23×
• Bland v. New York
  E.D. New York· 2003-03-07· cited 22×
• Darold L. Rutland v. Mike Moore, Attorney General of the State of Mississippi
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-05-25· cited 21×
• Baker v. Stone County, Mo.
  W.D. Missouri· 1999-03-16· cited 21×
• Kelley v. City of Albuquerque
  D. New Mexico· 2004-12-30· cited 21×
• Kidwell v. Board of County Com'rs of Shawnee County
  D. Kansas· 1998-09-22· cited 20×
• Krause v. Cherry Hill Fire District 13
  D. New Jersey· 1997-06-30· cited 17×
• Desmarteau v. City of Wichita, Kan.
  D. Kansas· 1999-08-12· cited 17×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, Administratrix of the Estate of Catrett
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 119,442×
• Skidmore v. Swift & Co.
  Supreme Court· 1944-12-04· cited 4,567×
• Basic Inc. v. Levinson
  Supreme Court· 1988-03-07· cited 3,007×
• Randy Abercrombie v. City of Catoosa, Oklahoma Mayor Curtis Conley and Police Chief Benny Dirck
  Tenth Circuit· 1990-03-22· cited 353×
• Starrett v. Wadley
  Tenth Circuit· 1989-05-22· cited 200×
• Jimmie McBee v. Jim Hogg County, Texas and Gilbert Ybanez, Javier Alfonso Hinojosa v. Jim Hogg County, Texas
  Fifth Circuit· 1984-04-30· cited 130×
• Anderson v. City of Albuquerque
  Tenth Circuit· 1982-10-12· cited 126×
• Evers v. General Motors Corp.
  Eleventh Circuit· 1985-09-10· cited 117×
• Owens v. Rush
  Tenth Circuit· 1981-06-29· cited 112×
• Hardeman v. Chrysler Credit Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1989-10-02· cited 95×
• Sharyl TENEYUCA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BEXAR COUNTY, Bill White, and Charles T. Conaway, Defendants-Appellees
  Fifth Circuit· 1985-08-02· cited 82×
• Trustees of Iron Workers Local 473 Pension Trust v. Allied Products Corporation
  Seventh Circuit· 1989-04-13· cited 77×
• Brewster v. Barnes
  Fourth Circuit· 1986-04-10· cited 72×
• Curl v. Reavis
  Fourth Circuit· 1984-08-01· cited 48×
• Jimmie McBee v. Jim Hogg County, Texas, Javier Alfonso Hinojosa v. Jim Hogg County, Texas
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-08-12· cited 45×
• United States v. Gregory
  Fourth Circuit· 1987-05-19· cited 41×
• Peter J. Brennan, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. David Dillion, an Individual
  Tenth Circuit· 1973-08-30· cited 39×
• Wall v. Coleman
  S.D. Georgia· 1975-04-18· cited 29×
• United States v. Gregory
  W.D. Virginia· 1984-03-21· cited 12×