Hamilton v. Citrus County

How courts have described this case

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

• court is not bound to consider claim of governmental immunity if not pleaded as special defense
• plain error doctrine invoked “where the record is complete and the question is essentially one of law, so that neither party is prejudiced”
• “We begin our analysis with the principles of statutory interpretation. First, we look to the words of the statute in order to discern the intent of the legislature and then resolve any ambiguity by turning for guidance to the legislative history and purpose.”
• describing treble damages as ‘‘extreme’’ sanction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).