Becker v. Beaudoin

How courts have described this case

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• granting a brief stay of execution to afford the General Assembly an opportunity to enact legislation regarding municipal tort immunity
• abolishing the doctrine of municipal immunity but emphasizing that \it is to be understood that this decision does not in any manner abolish or limit the sovereign immunity that inheres in the state itself\
• abolishing the doctrine of municipal immunity but emphasizing that “it is to be understood that this decision does not in any manner abolish or limit the sovereign immunity that inheres in the state itself’
• police placed prisoner with known suicidal tendencies in cell containing blanket which he later used to hang himself
• while courts need not wait on legislature to repudiate unsound judicial doctrine, they should provide legislature opportunity to weigh in on issue more suited to its control
• en ambos un confinado se ahorcó en una celda cuando lo dejaron solo

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).