# Teter v. City of Newport Beach

> California Supreme Court · April 28, 2003 · 133 Cal. Rptr. 2d 139

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9797483

## Case

- **Full name:** CRAIG TETER, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH, Defendant and Appellant
- **Court:** California Supreme Court
- **Decided:** April 28, 2003
- **Citations:** 133 Cal. Rptr. 2d 139; 30 Cal. 4th 446; 2003 Daily Journal DAR 4489; 66 P.3d 1225; 2003 Cal. LEXIS 2639
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Kennard
- **Judges:** Brown, Kennard
- **Cited by:** 16 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that municipalities are immune from suit based on injuries done to 21 prisoners except for explicitly enumerated exceptions such as § 845.6

## Opinion text

KENNARD, J.
I concur generally in the majority opinion. There is, however, one aspect with which I disagree: Unlike the majority, I would not reach out to disapprove the Court of Appeal’s decision in Meyer v. City of Oakland (1980) 107 Cal.App.3d 770 [ 166 Cal.Rptr. 79 ]. (See maj. opn., ante, at pp. 452-453.) As the majority acknowledges, this case is readily distinguishable from Meyer. (Id., at p. 452.) That distinction renders it *457 unnecessary to resolve the difficult question of whether Meyer was correctly decided, an issue I would leave for another day when it is squarely presented.
Werdegar, J., and Moreno, J., concurred.

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