Beckley v. Crabtree

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that county sheriff, an elected county official, qualified as a county employee under Government Tort Claims and Insurance Reform Act
• acknowledging that “A sheriff is an employee of a political subdivision, the county commission”
• applying 14 only the Tort Claims Act to analyze immunity claims advanced by a county sheriff and a county commission
• finding the Sheriff is an employee of the County Commission under West Virginia Code § 29–12A–3(a)
• the exception “refers to the formulation and implementation of policy related to how police, law enforcement or fire protection should be provided”
• “[T]he phrase ‘the method of providing police, law enforcement or fire protection’... refers to the formulation and implementation of policy related to how police, law enforcement or fire protection should be provided.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).