Legal Opinion
Mumm v. Mornson
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided January 10, 2006No. A04-729PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BLATZ, Chief Justice.
This case presents issues of qualified immunity and common law official immunity for police officers engaged in a vehicular pursuit of a mentally disturbed individual, as well as the issue of vicarious official immunity for the officers’ employer, the City of Minneapolis. The case arose out of a police pursuit of Geralyn Mornson (“Mornson”) that ended when police officers rammed their squad car into Morn-son’s vehicle, resulting in a crash in which Mornson’s vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian. The decedent’s spouse, Beverly Mumm (“Mumm”), filed this suit…
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