Sami Allaithi v. Donald Rumsfeld

How courts have described this case

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• indicating that, where the conduct is not “devoid of a connection between tort and employer,” it is essentially foreseeable
• finding that a government employee’s continued shackling and chaining of detainees after they were cleared as non-enemy combatants was conduct incidental to the detention and 8 interrogation of suspected enemy combatants
• “Local [D.C.] law requires an employee be solely motivated by his [or her] own purposes for consequent conduct to fall outside the scope of employment.”
• “In this circuit, it is not enough merely to mention a possible argument in the most skeletal way, leaving the court to do counsel’s work[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).