Everitt v. General Electric Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “municipal police officers are immune from personal liability for decisions, acts or omissions that are: (1) made within the scope of their official duties while in the course of their employment; (2) discretionary, rather than ministerial; and (3
• explaining that in assessing whether discretionary function immunity applies, we distinguish between policy decisions involving the consideration of competing economic, social, and political factors, and operational or ministerial decisions required to implement policy decisions
• discussing official immunity for police officers and observing that the “public safety entrusted to police officers demands that they remain diligent in their duties and independent in their judgments”
• discussing official immunity for police officers and observing that the “public safety entrusted to police officers demands that they remain diligent in their duties and independent in their judgments”
• declining to address arguments raised beyond the scope of the interlocutory question presented
• basing scope of common-law official immunity on, inter alia, scope of statutory official immunity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).