National Railroad Passenger Corp. v. Catlett Volunteer Fire Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the statutory phrase “incident to fighting fires” impliedly encompassed firefighters “operati[ng] . . . a fire truck en route to the scene of a fire”
• applying the Black’s Law Dictionary definition of “incident” to discern what “incident to” meant in a statute
• “For an individual governmental official or employee, the defense of sovereign immunity is not absolute. He or she may be held liable, but only for gross negligence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).