Porter v. Peyton

How courts have described this case

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• holding that city could be held liable for municipal judge’s decision to fire a court clerk because he had been delegated carte balance authority regarding employment matters in his court
• holding that municipal judge was “the official policymaker for the hiring and firing of his staff” due to state statute, “long established custom,” and the absence of any administrative review process to challenge terminations

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