Williamson v. Cain

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that state employees demolishing abandoned house were not entitled to immunity even though the job required some degree of decision-making
• ruling that tearing down house was ministerial, despite making independent decisions relating to job
• ruling that tearing down a house was ministerial, despite the exercise of independent decisions
• holding state employees’ removal of a house was a “simple and definite” job not entitling them to immunity
• noting “almost any act involves some measure of freedom of choice” but that did “not entitle [the officials] to immunity from suit”
• nature, quality and complexity of deci-sionmaking process did not entitle state to discretionary acts immunity where state employee’s job to demolish a house was simple and definite

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).