State ex rel. Jayla Ruiz-Morales, John Kimani, and Valarie Johnson, Relators v. the Honorable Deborah Alessi

Summary

The Court made permanent its preliminary writ of prohibition, holding that the employees were entitled to official immunity from the wrongful-death claims against them. Although the individual support plan required supervision, equipment checks, repositioning, and other care, performing those tasks required judgment about when and how to provide care, so the duties were discretionary rather than ministerial. The opinion also concludes that prohibition was an appropriate remedy because immunity was determinable as a matter of law on uncontested facts.