Oregon Supreme Court· 4/21/1981

Bradford v. Davis

Citations

626 P.2d 1376
290 Or. 855
1981 Ore. LEXIS 797

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question turns on whether the individual had been delegated responsibility for a “policy judgment”
\The question of immunity is * * * whether the defendant had been delegated responsibility for a policy judgment and exercised such responsibility in the act or omission alleged to constitute the tort.\
“The question of immunity is * * * whether the defendant had been delegated responsibility for a policy judgment and exercised such responsibility in the act or omission alleged to constitute the tort.”
policymaking authority must have been properly delegated and responsibly exercised
“[T]ort actions against public bodies and their officers and employees are not a specially created type of action but ordinary tort actions to which the legislature has consented to subject the government and its person- nel.”

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Judges: Denecke, Lent, Linde, Peterson, Campbell

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