Jackson v. Righter

How courts have described this case

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• considering scope of employment to determine if employer was liable for employee’s alienation of affections
• finding as a matter of law that the defendant’s “romantic involvement . . . was so clearly outside the scope of his employment that reasonable minds could not differ”
• duty arises when employer could reasonably be expected to appreciate the threat its employee poses to third persons
• “where the employee’s conduct is so clearly outside the scope of employment that reasonable minds cannot differ, the issue may properly be decided as a matter of law”
• “where the employee’s conduct is so clearly outside the scope of employment that reasonable minds cannot differ, the issue may properly be decided as a matter of law”
• \[Thhe mere fact that [the employer] employed [the employee] in a managerial position did not clothe [the employee] with the authority to become romantically involved with his subordinates.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).