Peck v. State

PARRISH, Justice:

INTRODUCTION

¶ 1 This ease requires us to determine whether the Utah Governmental Immunity Act bars Thomas Peck’s negligence suit against the State of Utah and the Utah Highway Patrol (“UHP”). Peck alleges that a UHP trooper negligently allowed him to fall on his face while the trooper was physically restraining him. The incident occurred after Peck was arrested and handcuffed, but before he was placed in a police cruiser to be transported to jail. We hold that Peck’s claim is barred because there is a causal connection between his injury and his incarceration in a place of…