City of Cockrell Hill v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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

• observing, “There is no allegation or evidence that [the alderman] committed any violation of the law in his official capacity as alderman.”
• stating, “In short, they are not the things the public would be concerned about simply because of [the alderman’s] status as an elected official.”
• “[L]egislative consent to suit must be by clear and unambiguous language. There is nothing in the plain language of the Act that would indicate clear legislative intent to waive sovereign immunity from suit based on the private acts of elected officials.”
• hiring and firing of city employees is a governmental function

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).