Espina v. Jackson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that under Maryland's Local Government Tort Claims Act, \tortious acts or omissions\ includes constitutional torts
• stating that “the lynchpin of the local government’s liability” hinges on whether the officers acted within the scope of employment
• finding that the waiver of sovereign immunity as to “tortious acts or omissions” in the LGTCA extends to state constitutional claims
• noting 2001 state legislation responding to Bennett and declining to distinguish between state constitutional tort claims and state non-constitutional tort claims in the applicability of the LGTCA damages cap
• noting 2001 state legislation responding to Bennett and declining to distinguish between state constitutional tort claims and state non-constitutional tort claims in the applicability of the LGTCA damages cap
• considering Lee’s discussion of the scope of “tort claims” extending to constitutional claims in the Maryland TCA to define the scope of “tortious acts or omissions” extending to constitutional claims in the Local Government TCA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).