State Department of Corrections v. Watts

How courts have described this case

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

• “[Courts] construe a statutory provision to harmonize it with other provisions relating to the same subject matter.”
• “[Courts] construe a statutory provision to harmonize it with other provisions relating to the same subject matter.”
• “WGCA is considered a close-ended tort claims act, which means that a claim is barred by governmental immunity unless it falls within one of the statutory exceptions.”
• claim that State failed to properly guard and monitor Honor Farm inmate and thereby failed to protect employee from attack by inmate did not assert defect in physical structure of building itself and was therefore outside section 106 waiver of immunity
• “We will use our standard rules of statutory construction to determine whether the legislature intended that immunity be waived for a particular claim [under the Wyoming Governmental Claims Act] 8 [¶22] Section 23-1-901 states in relevant part: (a
• distinguishing between duty and immunity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).