Deputy J.K. Maston v. Thomas Jefferson Wagner

How courts have described this case

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• finding that both the State Police and a political subdivision could be held liable for allegedly negligent acts which violated the constitution such that qualified immunity did not apply
• \A public officer is entitled to qualified immunity for discretionary acts even if committed negligently.\
• “A public officer is entitled to qualified immunity for discretionary acts even if committed negligently.”
• “The State Police is not entitled to qualified immunity because that state agency may be vicariously liable for the wrongful acts of a trooper committed within the scope of the trooper’s employment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).