Firstly, the nature and scope of duties of care must be identified and delineated.
Determinations of the scope of duty in negligence cases has traditionally been a function of the judiciary.
Mr. Robb did not directly answer that question, saying that it was beyond the Coast Guard's scope of duties.
In essence, the act protects federal employees from litigation stemming from actions within their scope of duty.
In a Jan . 11letter to Indian Country Today, a weekly newspaper, Mr. West disputed reports first published in The Washington Post, calling them mischaracterizations of travel that was within the scope of his duties.
In each of those instances, General Hood said, the guard "either accidentally touched the Koran, touched it within the scope of his duties, or did not actually touch the Koran at all".
Gordon Williams later filed a lawsuit for slander in Queens, which was shifted to federal court after Grimm's defense attorney — a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney's office — argued that Grimm was "acting within the scope of his duties" at the club.
Held: A state prosecuting attorney who, as here, acted within the scope of his duties in initiating and pursuing a criminal prosecution and in presenting the State's case, is absolutely immune from a civil suit for damages under § 1983 for alleged deprivations of the accused's constitutional rights.
The question presented in this case is whether a state prosecuting attorney who acted within the scope of his duties in initiating and pursuing a criminal prosecution is amendable to suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 for alleged deprivations of the defendant's constitutional rights.
Of course, throughout the process, you should seek advice from faculty here at Chicago; it is certainly within the scope of our "duties" as faculty members to provide counsel and guidance to those students interested in entering law teaching.
The district said it will pay these costs because the administrators acted within the scope of their duties.
