Hill v. Giani

STOWERS, Justice,

concurring, with whom CARPENETI, Chief Justice, joins only in paragraphs 1 through 8 of the concurrence.

I agree with the court's opinion. I write separately to respond to Justice Fabe's dissent. The dissent would hold that Giani is entitled to qualified immunity for having made a report of harm because many of Giani's allegations of harm were substantiated 1 by DHSS's investigation of Hill. In the dissent's view, the "truth of much of Giant's report strongly rebuts a claim by Hill that the report was made without a good-faith belief in the truth of its contents." 2

The problem…