Godar v. Edwards

How courts have described this case

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• holding that having the oppor- tunity to become acquainted with students as the curriculum director did not bring the director’s conduct of sexually assaulting a student on and off school premises within the scope of his employment
• observing that a claim of negligent hiring “likewise includes an action for negligent retention and negligent supervision”
• noting that negligent hiring cases require proof that the employer knew or should have known “of its employee’s unfitness” (quoting 27 Am. Jur. 2d Employment Relationship § 473, at 913–14 (1996))
• recognizing a cause of action for negligent hiring and “conclud[ing] that an employer has a duty to exercise reasonable care in hiring individuals, who, because of their employment, may pose a threat of injury to members of the public”
• focusing on the scope of the alleged conduct in light of that reasonably foreseen by the employer
• adopting tort of negligent hiring as recognized in other jurisdictions and extending the reasoning to negligent retention and negligent supervision claims

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