Sheldon v. Merrill

How courts have described this case

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• holding that once the plaintiff’s fixed term of employment expired, “he had no property interest... as a matter of law”
• holding that a Worker's Compensation Board chairman's alleged assurances that he would do everything he could to ensure that the plaintiff was reappointed to the Board \could not create a property right where state law provided expressly to the contrary\
• “Although district judgés within a particular circuit will frequently find each other’s decisions persuasive, they remain free to disagree.”
• Although certain Supreme Court decisions had developed a useful framework for assessing the constitutionality of patronage dismissal, these decisions, nevertheless, did not “clearly establish” the law with respect to every governmental position.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).