Kidd v. Coates

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the phrase “actual intent to cause injury” has been defined as “contain[ing] aspects of malice, perhaps a wicked or evil motive.”
• considering whether city police officer performed discretionary acts with “actual intent to cause injury”
• indicating official immunity protects discretionary acts unless they are performed with “actual malice or with actual intent to cause injury in the performance of their official functions”
• explaining actual malice requires “actual intent to cause harm to the plaintiff, not merely an intent to do the act purportedly resulting in the claimed injury” (quotation omitted)
• defining “actual intent to cause injury” as “an actual intent to cause harm to the plaintiff” which encompasses concept of wilfulness, malice, or corruption in the context of official immunity
• noting “acts in executing the warrant and firing the guns [at decedent] were discretionary”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).