Ex Parte City of Montgomery

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• recognizing that discretionary official-act immunity does not attach to an officer who acts in bad faith, or willfully or maliciously, since that act would not be considered discretionary
• holding officers are entitled to discretionary-function immunity when exercising their judgment on whether to make an arrest
• \Rule 56(e) does not provide that the nonmoving party will be in default for failing to respond to a summary-judgment motion.\
• because there is no \hard and fast rule\ regarding whether actual probable cause exists to make an arrest, an officer is entitled to discretionary-function immunity for exercising his or her judgment in whether to make an arrest
• because there is no \hard and fast rule\ regarding whether actual probable cause exists to make an arrest, an officer is entitled to discretionary-function immunity for exercising his or her judgment in whether to make an arrest

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