State v. Laliyer

How courts have described this case

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

• finding the decision concerning the method to control road dust was discretionary, but the implementation of that decision was not protected by sovereign immunity
• explaining that a distinction is to be made between “those functions which rest on the exercise of judgment and discretion and represent planning and policy-making and those functions which involve the implementation and execution of such governmental policy or planning.”
• common law municipal immunity from liability applies only if the acts involved government planning and policy-making
• court has not only power but duty to evaluate its own doctrine of municipal immunity in light of reason and logic, and actions, functions and duties of municipalities in twentieth century
• court has not only power but duty to evaluate its own doctrine of municipal immunity in light of reason and logic, and actions, functions and duties of municipalities in twentieth century
• abolishing the application of judicially-created sovereign immunity to municipalities

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).