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TEEUWISSEN v. HINDS COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI

No. 22-60457.

78 F.4th 166 (2023)

Pieter TEEUWISSEN; Anthony R. Simon; Simon & Teeuwissen, P.L.L.C., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. HINDS COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, BY AND THROUGH ITS BOARD OF SUPERVISORS; David Archie, individually and in his official capacity; Credell Calhoun, individually and in his official capacity; Robert Graham, individually and in his official capacity; John Does I-V, each individually and in his official capacity; Mississippi Association of Supervisors Insurance Trust, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED August 14, 2023.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Thomas Jaques, Esq. , Jaques Group, Incorporated, Madison, MS, for Plaintiffs.

Jamie D. Travis , Tommy Eugene Brown, Jr. , Justis Robert Gibbs, II , Gibbs Travis, P.L.L.C., Jackson, MS, for Defendants-Appellees Hinds County, Mississippi, by and through its Board of Supervisors, David Archie, individually and in his official capacity, Credell Calhoun, individually and in his official capacity, Robert Graham, individually and in his official capacity.

Robert Jathorne Dambrino, III, Esq. , Wesley C. Pinson , Attorney, Gore, Kilpatrick & Dambrino, P.L.L.C., Gore, Kilpatrick & Dambrino, P.L.L.C., for Defendant-Appellee Mississippi Association of Supervisors Insurance Trust.

Before Smith, Higginson, and Willett, Circuit Judges.

Mississippi common law generally forbids local-government officers from using contracts to bind their successors-in-office. As a result, newly elected officers typically have unilateral authority to void any contracts that they find in effect upon taking office. But the Mississippi Supreme Court also recognizes an...

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