Department of Human Resources v. Hutchinson

How courts have described this case

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• express mention of “state officer or employee” in two subsections of statute and omission from third
• Department of Human Resources entitled to sovereign immunity where it placed juvenile in contract home and juvenile thereafter shot operator of the home
• focus of the assault and battery exception is not on the act or omission of the government entity exercising oversight authority over the individual who committed the tort
• plaintiff raised failure to warn claim after state placed juvenile in plaintiff’s home, and he shot plaintiff
• express mention of “state officer or employee” in two subsections of statute and omission from third “regarded as deliberate”
• Department of Human Resources entitled to sovereign immunity where it placed juvenile in contract home and juvenile thereafter shot operator of the home

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).