Niese v. City of Alexandria

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a municipality is immune from alleged intentional torts by an investigating police officer.
• holding that “a municipality is immune from liability for intentional torts committed by an employee during the performance of a governmental function”
• holding that sexual assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and negligent retention claims against the City of Alexandria on the basis of a police officer’s conduct, were barred by sovereign immunity
• holding municipalities immune from liability for negligence associated with performance of “governmental” functions, and from liability for intentional torts committed by an employee during the performance of a governmental function
• explaining that “[t]he doctrine of sovereign immunity is ‘alive and well’ in Virginia”
• analyzing the application of sovereign immunity to a municipality from its employee’s conduct under the “ministerial” and “governmental” distinction outside of the VTCA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).