Legal Opinion
Kaplan v. Pointer
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided December 18, 1985No. 83-1327PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BELSON, Associate Judge:
This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a renewed motion for summary judgment by a government official who asserts that he has absolute immunity from appellee’s common law tort claim. The trial court denied the renewed motion on the ground that the previous denial of substantially the same motion by another judge constituted the law of the case. We affirm.
Appellees Riley Pointer, an operating engineer employed by the General Services Administration (GSA), and Paul S. Shupp, a foreman with GSA, filed this common law action claiming damages for intentional…
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