Carlisle Equipment Co. v. United States Secretary of Labor & Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission

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• city was not immune from liability for street department workers’ alleged negligence in following procedures during a power outage
• city was not immune from liability -14- No. 1-14-0392 for street department workers’ alleged negligence in following procedures during a power outage
• failure to properly hook up city sewer bypass pump was ministerial; noting that every act has some discretion in the manner of its performance
• no discretionary immunity for the municipality’s delay in hooking up a bypass pump, because the operation of a sewage system was subject to statutory and regulatory guidelines
• the classification of acts as either discretionary or ministerial escapes any precise formulation and must be made on a case-by-case basis in light of the particular facts and circumstances presented
• in order to be entitled to immunity under section 2-201, the public entity must show that its act was both an exercise of discretion and a policy determination, as opposed to ministerial

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