Brakefield v. Alabama Department of Human Resources

WOODALL, Justice.

In May 2008, seven-year-old Jordan Alexander Robertson was placed in foster *665care at the home of Verlin Spurgeon and Carol Spurgeon. In June 2008, Jordan drowned in the Spurgeons’ swimming pool. James C. Brakefíeld, as administrator of Jordan’s estate (“Brakefíeld”), sued the Spurgeons, among others, in the Walker Circuit Court, alleging that they had negligently and/or wantonly caused Jordan’s death. The Spurgeons moved the circuit court for a summary judgment, alleging, among other things, that the claims were barred by the doctrines of parental, State, and State-agent…