Lewis v. Department of Human Resources

How courts have described this case

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• holding that exercising judgment in whether to bring a regulatory enforcement action was a “discretionary function” within the scope of the GTCA
• State was immune from suit by plaintiff who was placed in scalding bath at private residential care facility
• “[a] ministerial act is commonly one that is simple, absolute, and definite, arising under conditions admitted or proved to exist, and requiring merely the execution of a specific duty.”
• where complaint alleged Department was negligent in failing to enforce regulations applicable to a personal care home where the decedent was fatally injured, Department was entitled to dismissal under, inter alia, the licensing exception to waiver of sovereign immunity

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