Summary
The Connecticut Supreme Court dismissed the defendants’ certified appeal as improvidently granted in a wrongful death action arising from state police officers’ use of nonlethal ammunition against the decedent. The court did not resolve whether sovereign immunity applied when the officers were sued in their individual capacities, nor whether the plaintiff had standing because of the estate’s designation as the named plaintiff.
Holdings
- The certified appeal was dismissed because certification had been improvidently granted.
Questions Presented
- Whether the Supreme Court should decide the certified question concerning application of the Spring sovereign-immunity test when state officials are sued in their individual capacities.
- Whether the appeal should be dismissed because certification was improvidently granted.
Disposition
dismissed
Cases Cited (6)
- Spring v. Constantino, 168 Conn. 563, 568, 362 A.2d 871 (1975)(cited)
- Devine v. Fusaro, 205 Conn. App. 554, 576, 259 A.3d 655 (2021)(cited)
- Devine v. Fusaro, 339 Conn. 904, 260 A.3d 1224 (2021)(cited)
- Estate of Rock v. University of Connecticut, 323 Conn. 26, 32, 144 A.3d 420 (2016)(cited)
- Estate of Brooks v. Commissioner of Revenue Services, 325 Conn. 705, 706 n.1, 159 A.3d 1149 (2017), cert. denied, 138 S. Ct. 1181, 200 L. Ed. 2d 314 (2018)(cited)
- Reinke v. Sing, 328 Conn. 376, 382, 179 A.3d 769 (2018)(cited)
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