Olson v. Ramsey County

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that implementation of a case plan for an abused child and his mother was a ministerial duty and common law official immunity would not apply against allegations of negligent implementation of the plan
• concluding that implementation of a case plan for an abused child and his mother was a ministerial duty and common law official immunity would not apply against allegations of negligent implementation of the plan
• recognizing that employee’s immunity extends to employer through doctrine of vicarious official immunity
• finding that a child protection social worker’s creation of Case Plan is discretionary and protected by official immunity
• determining that a county social worker’s creation of a case plan “required the exercise of judgment” and involved “professional planning at the operational level in the discharge of an assigned governmental duty”
• holding county entitled to vicarious official immunity when granting immunity to social worker while denying it to county would put “stifling attention on the social worker’s performance, 11 to the serious detriment of that performance”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).