DeStafney v. University of Alabama

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• adopting the standard of qualified immunity for public officers prescribed in Restatement (Second) of Torts § 895D (1974)
• personal injury action against individual state employees not within the protection of § 14
• defense of sovereign immunity afforded university and its president did not extend to employee whose alleged tortious act was the basis of the claim
• a University of Alabama daycare worker sued on the theory that she negligently injured a three-year-old boy lacked immunity because the worker was not performing a discretionary function when the injury occurred
• a University of Alabama daycare worker sued on the theory that she negligently injured a three-year-old boy lacked immunity because the worker was not performing a discretionary function when the injury occurred

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