Walls v. Arizona Department of Public Safety

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the immunity statute “creates a qualified immunity for public employees and entities for certain actions
• recognizing the legislature’s intent for the government to enjoy sovereign immunity given its broad exercise of power, including immunity for failing to make an arrest
• acknowledging that decisions to investigate a crime or arrest a suspect “involve a judgment by a police officer”
• explaining that if the amended pleading could still be defeated, granting leave to amend would be a futile gesture
• construing 23 “failure to make an arrest” to include “failure to make an investigatory stop” and holding 24 that officers could not “be liable for ordinary negligence”
• affirming denial of leave to amend because new claim would not survive summary judgment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).