Saarinen v. Kerr

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the standard “reckless disregard for the safety of others” requires more than “a showing of ‘due care under the circumstances’— the showing typically associated with ordinary negligence claims”
• affirming summary judgment because the evidence failed to establish that the officer acted with reckless disregard
• operator of emergency vehicle is liable only for conduct that is in reckless disregard of safety of others
• “A violation of this policy, if in fact it occurred, would be an important, although not dispositive, factor in determining whether [the defendant] had acted recklessly.”
• “Officer McGown’s maximum speed of 60 m.p.h. was hardly a 3 ‘breakneck’ pace for a police pursuit on relatively empty, nonresidential streets.”
• “reckless disregard” requires plaintiff to prove that emergency responder intentionally acted in conscious disregard of obvious risk so great as to make it highly probable that harm would result

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).