29-20-111 - No employee liability for attempts to maintain order in judicial proceedings. - Tennessee Statutes

29-20-111. No employee liability for attempts to maintain order in judicial proceedings.

Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or any other law to the contrary, no claim may be brought, or any judgment entered against an employee of local government, who is acting in good faith and within the scope of employment, arising from the employee's negligent act or omission in attempting to control another person's disorderly conduct or violent behavior that delays or disrupts, or threatens to delay or disrupt, a courtroom proceeding or that jeopardizes the safety of a judge, judicial employee, attorney, litigant, witness, or spectator who is present for a judicial proceeding.

[Acts 2002, ch. 839, § 1.]