# Thorp v. Strigari

> Ohio Court of Appeals · November 7, 2003 · 155 Ohio App. 3d 245

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3701074

## Case

- **Full name:** Sara Thorp, Carol Tyson, Gretchen Scronce, and Sara Runyon v. Louis F. Strigari
- **Court:** Ohio Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** November 7, 2003
- **Citations:** 155 Ohio App. 3d 245; 2003 Ohio 5954; 800 N.E.2d 392
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Painter
- **Judges:** Gorman, Doan, Painter
- **Cited by:** 20 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting that Ohio has held that public defenders, as employees of a political subdivision, are immune from claims of negligence under its Political Subdivision Tort Liability Act, which provides that a public employee is “immune from liability in performing his job unless (1) h…

## Opinion text

Painter, Judge,
concurring.
{¶ 36} I concur in Judge Gorman’s well-reasoned opinion. The conclusions are required by the state of the law as handed down to us by the legislature and the Ohio Supreme Court.
{¶ 37} But I continue to believe that governmental immunity in the United States is simply one big legal mistake—based on the English model of “the king can do no wrong.”
3
We have no king. And we should not make the government king, and thus not liable for its transgressions against individual rights.
{¶ 38} As to this case, we do not know whether there was any malpractice—the case never got that far because of the immunity. But it is odd that a person with money, who can hire an attorney, has a remedy if the attorney errs, but a poor person has none. Alas, the way of the world; but in this case mandated by the legislature.
3
. See
Gladon v. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Auth.
(1996), 75 Ohio St.3d 312 , 662 N.E.2d 287 , (Douglas, J., dissenting).

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