192 Wis. 2d 552 - Phillips v. Behnke’s Empirical Analysis

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11 state decisions

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1. “Immunity FROM liability. Any person or institution participating in good faith in the making of a report, conducting an investigation, ordering or taking of photographs or ordering or performing medical examinations of a child or of an expectant mother under this section shall have immunity from any liability, civil or criminal, that results by reason of the action. For the purpose of any proceeding, civil or criminal, the good faith of any person reporting under this section shall be presumed. The immunity provided under this subsection does not apply to liability for abusing or neglecting a child or for abusing an unborn child.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. D.B. ex rel. Recore v. County of Green Lake · 218 Wis. 2d 672 - Drake v. Huber

2. “as it is used in § 48.981(4), Stats. In Phillips , the plaintiffs alleged that the defendants had failed to report allegations of child abuse in good faith. In concluding that there was no evidence that the respondents had not acted in good faith, we noted that Black's Law Dictionary defines good faith partly as”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 218 Wis. 2d 672 - Drake v. Huber

3. “would eviscerate the protections of the statute and lead to absurd results.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. D.B. ex rel. Recore v. County of Green Lake