Adams v. Hazelwood

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that the defendant teacher did not act with actual malice despite evidence that the teacher devised a punishment that was demeaning and had the potential to cause harm
• writing that “actual malice” in the context of official immunity requires “a deliberate intention to do a wrongful act”
• finding that a school official who punished a student by requiring him to cut weeds with a pair of scissors was immune to suit because even “ill will” towards a student, by itself, was not sufficient to establish actual malice
• “In the absence of evidence that [the defendant] acted with actual malice, summary judgment was properly entered in his favor.”
• “[I]n the context of official immunity, actual malice means a deliberate intention to do a wrongful act.”
• “in the context of official immunity, actual malice requires a deliberate intention to do wrong”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).