Burdick v. Rhodes

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the “party seeking immunity bears the burden of demonstrating that its conduct is within the protection afforded by [an immunity statute]”
• applying immunity when a government entity was allegedly negligent for failing to pursue delinquency charges
• collecting cases interpreting the foregoing portion of the Indiana Tort Claims Act
• noting that immunity assumes negligence
• \The negligence of a defendant is not relevant if it is immune. Immunity assumes negligence but denies liability.\
• “Under Indiana common law, with very limited exception, governmental entities are thus subject to liability under traditional tort theories.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).