Dokman v. County of Hennepin

How courts have described this case

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• holding that police officers acting pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 253B.05 were entitled to qualified immunity
• “Vicarious official immunity protects a governmental entity from liability based on the acts of an employee who is entitled to official immunity.”
• first quoting Johnson v. State, 553 N.W.2d 40, 46 (Minn. 1996), then citing Kari v. City of Maplewood, 582 N.W.2d 921, 923 (Minn. 1998)
• “Only when officials act outside the scope of their charged authority can they be deemed to have waived this immunity and be held personally liable for their negligence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).