Opinion No. Oag 53-81, (1981)

How courts have described this case

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

• granting qualified immunity to department chair after plaintiff sued her for not renewing his contract
• “All common-law tort theories alleged against a governmental unit [or employee] are assumed to be ‘under the Tort Claims Act’ for purposes of section 101.106.”
• “Informal understandings and customs … cannot be the source of an employee’s property interest if the informal position conflicts with an official one.”
• argument that tortious interference by employee exceeded scope of employment because it was not authorized was “too narrow a view” when conduct was made in an official capacity and part of employee’s general role

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).