Doe v. South Carolina State Budget & Control Board

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding injuries suffered by sexual assault victims were not covered by police department's automobile and general liability policies because the injuries did not arise out of \use\ of officer's patrol car within meaning of auto policy
• concluding sexual abuse of two women by police officer in patrol vehicle did not arise from the use of the vehicle as “[t]he situs of an injury is not necessarily a causal link, even though it is connected spatially to the harm”
• police officer's coerced sexual acts with women whom he pulled for traffic stops were not within the scope of his official duties, and therefore the acts were not covered under the state's general tort liability policy
• police officer’s coerced sexual acts with women whom he pulled for traffic stops were not within the scope of his official duties, and therefore the acts were not covered under the state’s general tort liability policy
• “Even if we were to hold that Appellants had satisfied the first prong of the test and had demonstrated .a causal connection between the vehicle and the injury, we believe Roberson’s assaults of Appellants were acts of independent significance which broke the causal chain.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).