Daniela Javier v. City of Milwaukee

How courts have described this case

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

• discussing the “important” but “not intuitive” legal principle that “an employee can misuse or exceed his authority while still acting with the scope of his employment”
• “[T]he key question ... [is] whether [the officer] was acting as a vigilante for his own purposes or as a police officer when he shot [the suspect].”
• “[T]he scope of employment concept recognizes that an officer can exceed or abuse his authority— even intentionally or criminally—and still be acting within the scope of his employment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).