NORTON v. GILMAN

No. 96SC705.

949 P.2d 565 (1997)

Gale NORTON and the State of Colorado; and Colorado Board of Social Services, n/k/a Colorado Board of Human Services, Petitioners, v. Jane C. GILMAN; Douglas Price, individually and in his official capacity as the Director of the Adams County Department of Social Services; Allen Murphy, individually and in his professional capacity; and Pauline Burton, individually and in her professional capacity, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

November 24, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gale A. Norton, Attorney General, Martha Phillips Allbright, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Richard A. Westfall, Solicitor General, Garth C. Lucero, Deputy Attorney General, Timothy R. Arnold, Deputy Attorney General, Gregg E. Kay, First Assistant Attorney General, Beverly Fulton, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Litigation Section, Tort Litigation, Vaughan & DeMuro, David R. DeMuro, Special Assistant Attorney General, Denver, for Petitioners.

Robert J. Loew, Adams County Attorney, Marlene T. Gresh, Howard Reinstein, Assistant County Attorneys, Brighton, for Respondents.


Chief Justice VOLLACK delivered the Opinion of the Court.

We granted certiorari to review Gilman v. State, 932 P.2d 832 (Colo.App.1996), in which the court of appeals reversed the trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the State of Colorado (the State) in a case involving the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act (the Act), sections 24-10-101 to -120, 7 C.R.S. (1997). The issue before the trial court was whether the...

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