Johnson v. Mers

How courts have described this case

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

• defining discretionary acts as those “not performed on a given state of facts in a prescribed manner,” and in particular describing hiring as a discretionary act
• “[Hiring] is inherently discretionary and is not performed on a given state of facts in a prescribed manner.”
• upholding summary judgment to defendants on negligent hiring claim: hiring “is inherently discretionary and is not performed on a given state of facts in a prescribed manner.”
• defining discretionary acts as those “not performed on a given state of facts in a prescribed manner,” and in particular describing hiring as a discretionary act
• defining discretionary acts as those “not performed on a given state of facts in a prescribed manner,” and in particular describing hiring as a discretionary act
• characterizing a hiring decision as discretionary because “[t]he hiring decision is not one which is made when certain specific factors are present, with no regard to the hiring officials’ discretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).