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· 4/3/1989

McCaslin v. State

Citations

  • 298 Ark. 335
  • 767 S.W.2d 306
  • 1989 Ark. LEXIS 145

How courts have described this case

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  • recovery under negligence per se theory requires plaintiff to show, inter alia, that she is within class of persons the regulation was intended to protect
  • The doctrine of official immunity protects individual public agents including school teachers “from personal liability for discretionary actions taken within the scope of their official authority, and done without wilfulness, malice, or corruption.”
  • The doctrine of official immunity protects individual public agents including school teachers “from personal liability for discretionary actions taken within the scope of their official authority, and done without wilfulness, malice, or corruption.”
  • “As a teacher, Collins was required to exert discipline, control and supervision over the stu- dents in her classroom, acts that this Court has held constitute dis- cretionary acts involving the exercise of personal deliberation and judgment.”

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Judges: From, Glaze, Hickman, Newbern, Purtle

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