Catone v. Medberry

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to revive the public-duty doctrine because it “would effectively smuggle back into law the doctrine of sovereign immunity that [the state tort claims act] was designed to constrain”
• \The primary purpose of the public duty doctrine is to encourage the effective administration of governmental operations by removing the threat of potential litigation.\
• “[W]hen the government or its agent engages in an activity normally undertaken by private individuals [or corporations] * * *, a duty arises under the common law to exercise reasonable care in the performance of this task.”
• state as owner and operator of motor vehicle

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).