Williams v. Stickman

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that state employees could not claim sovereign immunity for damage done to the petitioner’s television while in DOC’s possession
• stating that “here, the injury is the loss of the property itself”
• reversing dismissal of claim for negligent damage to inmate’s television while in prison officials’ possession
• finding the personal property exception to sovereign immunity does not require a causal relationship between injury and property when the injury alleged is the loss of the property itself
• “when an employee of a Commonwealth agency was acting within the scope of his or her duties, the Commonwealth employee is protected by sovereign immunity from the imposition of liability for intentional tort claims”
• sovereign immunity excepted under the personal property exception for damage to a prisoner’s personal television while in the possession of prison officials during the period of time the prisoner spent in the prison’s restricted housing unit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).