Wright v. City of Danville

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a defendants’ actions “performed purely in his own interest” are not within the scope of his employment
• “[a] conviction for corrupt practices establishes that a public official exploited his fiduciary position for his personal benefit”
• although public officials’ employment provided opportunity for misconduct, “by no stretch of the imagination could their actions be deemed an extension of their legitimate functions as elected officials”
• defendants’ actions did not fall within the scope of employment because “the commissioners and corporation counsel stepped aside from their duties as officers of the City of Danville and acted for the sole, unlawful, independent, and personal purpose of promoting their own interests.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).