Mason v. Bitton

How courts have described this case

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• reasoning that the safety of others could be “jeopardized just as much by the negligence of the pursuer as it can by the negligence of the party being pursued”
• finding no discretionary immunity for decision to engage in high-speed car chase
• also holding that a police officer’s negligent decision to initiate or continue a high speed chase may constitute negligent “operation” of a vehicle
• law enforcement officers have a responsibility to determine whether the purpose of a pursuit is justified by the accompanying risk; when such a determination is unreasonable, officers can be negligent
• law enforcement officers have a responsibility to determine whether the purpose of a pursuit is justified by the accompanying risk; when such a determination is unreasonable, officers can be negligent
• summary judgment for city and state reversed; fact issues existed on conduct of pursuit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).