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HORTON v. TAYLOR

No. 84-1565.

767 F.2d 471 (1985)

Loren HORTON, J.C. Chadwick, Donald L. Ragland, J.D. Freeman and Ernest Adams, Appellants, v. Duford TAYLOR, Individually and in the Official Office of County Judge of Searcy County, Arkansas, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 11, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eddie Morgan, Clinton, Ark., for appellants.

Charles E. Clawson, Jr., Conway, Ark., for appellee.

Before JOHN R. GIBSON and BOWMAN, Circuit Judges, and SACHS, District Judge.

JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

The issue before us is whether five road-grader operators in a small, rural Arkansas county were wrongly fired because they were Republicans in a Democratic administration. The district court concluded they were not, finding a small-county exception to the rule of Elrod v. Burns, 427 U.S. 347, 96 S.Ct. 2673, 49 L.Ed.2d 547 (1976), and Branti v. Finkel, 445 U.S. 507

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