People v. Schwarzbaum

How courts have described this case

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

• holding governmental immunity protected City from liability in negligent hiring claim
• engaging ina “functional analysis of the actor’s position” to determine whether “‘it is sufficiently discretionary in nature to warrant immunity” and, if so, “whether the conduct giving rise to the claim is related to an exercise of that discretion”
• claim for personal injuries sustained by plaintiffs when they were shot by a probationary police officer
• “[Tjhe principal question is whether the City has governmental immunity from liability for negligence in hiring.”
• “Concededly, there may be some acts . . . which, if isolated from the rest, could... support a claim for negligence.”
• applying qualified immunity standards to police action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).