Lawson v. Shelby County Sheriff's Office

How courts have described this case

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• holding that General Statutes § 52-572e (b
• “release executed in favor of an employee operates as a matter of law to release the employer whose sole liability is premised on the doctrine of respondeat superior”
• ‘‘[t]he legislature is pre- sumed to be aware of [our Supreme Court’s] deci- sions’’
• \[t]he legislature is presumed to be aware of this court's decisions\
• “[t]he legislature is presumed to be aware of this court’s decisions”
• “[A] principal whose liability rests solely upon the doctrine of respondeat superior and not upon any independent act of the principal is not a joint tortfeasor with the agent from whose conduct the principal’s liability is derived.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).