Watson v. City of Hialeah

How courts have described this case

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

• addressing negligent retention claim premised on an unlawful killing by police and noting that “[b]y its very nature, an action for negligent retention involves acts which are not within the course and scope of employment . . . .”
• negligent retention “allows for recovery against an employer for acts of an employee committed outside the scope and course of employment” (quoting Garcia v. Duffy, 492 So. 2d 435, 438 (Fla. 2d DCA 1986))
• “By its very nature, an action for negligent retention involves acts which are not within the course and scope of employment and allows recovery even when an employer is not vicariously liable under the doctrine of respondeat superior.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).