Simon v. Still

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “[ajctual authority may be implied when such authority is ‘an integral part of the duties assigned to a [government employee’ ”
• finding that FBI Special Agents “can achieve their goal of inducing informant cooperation by following estab lished Manual payment procedures”
• framing the pertinent inquiry as “whether contractually binding authority is necessary or essential to the successful performance of [the employee’s] duties”
• framing the relevant inquiry as “whether contractually binding authority is necessary or essential to the successful performance of [the government employee’s] duties”
• contracting authority is not essential or necessary for FBI Special Agents to perform effectively their tasks of developing, controlling and supervising confidential informants
• contracting authority is not essential or necessary for FBI Special Agents to effectively perform their tasks of developing, controlling and supervising confidential informants

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).