Brown v. Mayor & City Council

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that although the Baltimore City Police Department is a state agency, it is a local government within the meaning of the LGTCA
• concluding that an officer who murdered his wife’s lover had not acted within the scope of employment because his actions “were completely personal”
• noting that although “whether [the employee] was, in fact, acting within the scope of his employment . . . is ordinarily a question of fact for the fact-finder, when the facts are undisputed, it becomes a question of law”
• declining to apply collateral estoppel to dismissed parties when the parties “could have remained in the [prior] case to litigate the issue,” because the parties were “not required to do so”
• off-duty police officer was not acting within scope of employment when he allegedly shot victim 17 times in belief that he was having an affair with officer’s wife

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).