SAFEGUARD CO. ET AL.

v.

BALDWIN ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (23 total)

• McBEE v. JIM Hogg Cnty., 730 F.2d 1009 (5th Cir. 1984)
  …word instead of a shield. I am thus more in accord with the rationale of the panel opinion in this case, 708 F. 2d 834, 841-42 (1983), and with the views of the Fourth Circuit in Ramey v. Harber, 589 F. 2d 753, 755-57 (4th Cir.1978), cert. denied, 442 U.S. 910, 99 S.Ct. 2823, 61 L.Ed.2d 275 (1979), than I am with the en banc majority’s rationale. I therefore concur only in the result of the majority.…
• Bever v. Gilbertson, 724 F.2d 1083 (4th Cir. 1984)
  …of critical analysis seeking to assess their reach [footnotes omitted].6 The decisions of our own Court reflect the continued uncertainty surrounding El-rod’s scope and applicability. In Ramey v. Harber, 589 F. 2d 753 (4th Cir.1978), cert. denied, 442 U.S. 910, 99 S.Ct. 2823, 61 L.Ed.2d 275 (1979), this Court noted the factual distinctions between that case, which involved a newly elected sheriff’s [*1093] failure to rehire deputies who had actively campaigned against him, and the Elrod case. Although the…
• Jones v. Dodson, 727 F.2d 1329 (4th Cir. 1984)
  …specific reference to Branti. J.A. 52-53. . This ruling may ultimately have been based upon dictum emphasizing the small-size factor in this court’s decision in Ramey v. Harber, 589 F. 2d 753, 761 (4th Cir.1978) (Hall, J„ concurring), cert. denied, 442 U.S. 910, 99 S.Ct. 2823, 61 L.Ed.2d 275 (1979). Aside from the fact that the small-size distinction in Ramey was entirely by way of dictum, Branti, which followed Ramey, held that raw patronage discharges in a nine-person public defender’s office were not ju…