Yanero v. Davis

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that enforcement of a rule requiring that students wear helmets during batting practice was a ministerial act
• noting that qualified immunity affords protection for “good faith judgment calls made in a legally uncertain environment”
• “[Qualified official immunity ... affords protection from damages liability for good faith judgment calls made in a legally uncertain environment.”
• “Once the officer or employee has shown prima facie that the act was performed within the scope of his/her discretionary authority, the burden shifts to the plaintiff to establish by direct or circumstantial evidence that the discretionary act was not performed in good faith.”
• Metro Government has sovereign immunity
• both overruled on other grounds

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).