Rogers v. Saylor

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that, even though the tortious conduct was committed by a public employee, a common-law claim against the individual was still available outside the scope of the Oregon Tort Claims Act
• holding that certain of OTCA’s provisions did not apply to plaintiff’s federal § 1983 claim
• “In sum, Oregon courts must hear section 1983 claims without limits on compensatory or punitive damages.”
• United States Constitution prohibits limitations of federal rights in state courts
• the OTCA limits damages to the extent that public employees acted within the scope of their duties, but a common-law claim without limitation on damages can be brought to redress acts committed outside that scope
• an OTCA case citing ORS 18.560 for its definition of noneconomic damages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).