DeLahunta v. City of Waterbury

How courts have described this case

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

• ‘‘[t]imidity and doubt would govern [public officials’] performance of public duty if they acted in the consciousness that personal liability might follow, no matter how closely they followed their best discretion’’
• ‘‘[The defendant’s] brief concedes that the exercise of this discretion does not justify [public officials’] acting wantonly or maliciously, or with a clear abuse of discretion. And we think this is our own rule.’’ (Emphasis added.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).