Carter v. Glenn

How courts have described this case

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• affirming grant of summary judgment to city employees on basis of official immunity and dismissing negligent hiring claims
• finding police chief entitled to official immunity against negligent hiring and retention claim because' such decisions were discretionary
• affirming grant of summary judgment where city’s purchase of liability insurance did not waive immunity, and where no question of fact remained concerning city officials’ actual malice in hiring and retaining a police officer who raped the plaintiff
• “[T]he act of establishing a policy in the first place is discretionary . . . .”
• operation of police department, including degree of supervision over officers, is a discretionary act
• “The operation of a police department, including the degree of training and supervision to be provided its officers, is a discretionary governmental function of the municipality as opposed to a ministerial, proprietary, or administratively routine function.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).