Mulhern v. City of Scottsdale

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• listing issues on appeal, which do not include the viability of a claim for negligent use of excessive force
• dismissing on other grounds a state law claim 26 for negligent assignment of duties asserted against the police chief
• \[T]he employer is not negligent in hiring or retaining the employee as a matter of law if the theory of the employee's underlying negligence fails.\
• “In order for the employer to be held liable for negligent hiring, retention or supervision, the employee must have committed a tort.”
• “In order for the employer 13 to be held liable for negligent hiring, retention, or supervision, the employee must have 14 committed a tort.”
• no error in precluding evidence of defendant’s chemical dependency because no evidence suggested he was under the influence at the time of the incident

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).