Louisiana Government Wee Bit Out of Control

[AussieMick]

Yes. True.
As a sort of aside ...
Here in Australia a Royal Commission is investigating the previous Govt's errors (what a surprise).
"Robodebt" concerns a major 'stuff-up'. The previous govt wanted to recoup money paid in error to welfare beneficiaries (unemployed mainly). Anyway, they sent them threatening letters demanding overpayments (calculated by computer hence "Robodebt") be paid back.

As could have been guessed ... the computer made mistakes and innocent people were threatened. Some committed suicide. The Govt dept had been told that legal advice should have been obtained but that was ignored.

https://robodebt.royalcommission.gov.au/...ission.pdf

Today the words "misfeasance in public office" were used . And I thought of this Thread.

"There are two forms of liability for misfeasance or misconduct in public office. The first involves targeted malice by a public officer, so for example this could be conduct specifically intended to injure a person. If a public officer had this intention, it is irrelevant whether they exceeded their power. The second type of liability is when a public officer acts knowing they have no power to do so – and that the act will probably injure a person or persons. Here the element of bad faith arises, so it’s not necessary to show that the public officer acted with the purpose or object of inflicting harm on the claimant."

Now the following is a very lengthy document but you might be interested (and have a few hours ... else maybe speed-read it).
It makes very little mention of the USA though.
MISFEASANCE IN PUBLIC OFFICE: A VERY PECULIAR TORT
https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets...35_1_1.pdf

BTW
A "Royal Commission" ... The Commission itself cannot prosecute individuals and its findings are non-binding. However, it can make recommendations to do so.

A non-judicial and non-administrative governmental investigation