Deloney v. Board of Education of Thornton Township, School District No. 205

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that acts of sexual misconduct were outside the scope of the truant officer’s employment as a matter of law
• stating that former employee’s alleged actions in sexually assaulting a high school student were outside scope of his employment
• holding that “[i]n the context of respondeat superi- or liability, an employer may be liable for the ‘negligent, wilful, malicious or even criminal acts of its employees when such acts are committed in the course of employment and in furtherance of the business of the employer.’ ”
• collecting cases expressing the general rule that acts of sexual misconduct are viewed as having been undertaken solely for the employee’s personal reasons
• collecting cases expressing the general rule that acts of sexual misconduct are viewed as having been undertaken solely for the employee’s personal reasons
• “In the context of respondeat superior liability, the term ‘scope of employment’ excludes con duct by an employee that is solely for the benefit of the employee.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).