Celebration Fireworks, Inc. v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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• noting that courts should not “easily declare[]” employees acting outside the scope of employment because then “claimants would more often find themselves limited to recovery against the private assets of employees rather than those of governments.”
• reasoning that acts incidental to authorized conduct can fall within the scope of employment, provided that such act “is subordinate to or pertinent to an act which the servant is employed to perform” (alteration in original) (citation omitted)
• “Even tortious acts may fall within the scope of employment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).