Downing v. Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that an employee’s actions were not ministerial because a classroom discipline plan required deliberation and was discretionary where the mandate failed to instruct, among other things, which conduct required discipline and when and where to discipline the students
• concluding that an employee’s actions were not ministerial because a classroom discipline plan required deliberation and was discretionary where the mandate failed to instruct, among other things, which conduct required discipline and when and where to discipline the students
• ministerial actions are duties that the law requires must be performed, and which require “obedience,” leaving the actor with no discretion or choice
• “The court of appeals’ analysis of whether [the governmental employee’s] actions required discretion or judgment was too narrow.”
• “Ministerial actions require obedience to orders or the performance of a duty to which the actor has no choice.“
• \Ministerial actions require obedience to orders or the performance of a duty to which the actor has no choice.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).