Court Opinion

ID: 9693407
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 16:40:25.300852+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:08:11.538816
License: Public Domain

Bronson, J.
(concurring). Although I authored the opinion in Gaston v Becker, 111 Mich App 692; 314 NW2d 728 (1981), I believe that the adoption (at least by most panels of this Court) of the "scope of employment” test has produced arbitrary results and is often unrelated to either the common-law reasons for the immunity doctrine or the Legislature’s apparent purposes in enacting the immunity statute. Because the examination of this issue is one of the Supreme Court’s most urgent priorities, I will not attempt to reassess my position here. I only wish to register my objection to the continued use of the "scope of employment” test and the accompanying expansion of the definition of what is a "governmental function”. The trial court properly applied the "scope of employment” test here.
I concur in the result.