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Jones v. State

Citations

  • 425 Md. 1
  • 38 A.3d 333
  • 2012 Md. LEXIS 77

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that expert testimony was unnecessary for a negligent training claim against police officers because the jury need only “common knowledge or experience” to recognize Fourth Amendment violations
  • stating that “[w]e have recognized the policy undergirding the public duty doctrine and applied the doctrine in a number of cases” and discussing several of them
  • explaining that a plaintiff can establish causation by showing that negligent training was both a “substantial factor” in an injury and that injury was a “foreseeable result”
  • reasoning that adequately pleaded negligence claim also satisfied fiduciary duty claim
  • when hiring an employee that is expected to come into contact with the public, the employer must make reasonable inquiry into the employee’s fitness
  • when hiring an employee that is expected to come into contact with the public, the employer must make reasonable inquiry into the employee’s fitness

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Judges: Barbera

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