Rios v. Norsworthy

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• “governmental liability [is] the rule and immunity the exception,” therefore, the “governmental entity bears the burden to establish immunity”
• people to whom social workers converse in supervising child placements are not subject to any carefully drawn, precise legal standard
• “A new legal theory may not be asserted for the first time on appeal or raised in a reply brief.”
• decision to leave children in custody of their mother was within the discretionary function exception and “involve [d] discriminating judgment between competing interests . . .”
• SRS placement of children with their mother and monitoring of that placement involve \discriminating judgment between competing interests\ shielded under KTCA discretionary function immunity
• applying discretionary function exception under Kansas Tort Claims Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).