What is the legal status of malfeasance?

[arthur brogard]

When public officials, Dept Heads and such, particularly in Health, are charged with acting in the interests of their clients and it can be shown the measures they have taken are NOT in the best interests - such as useless masking, denying access to proven medications, mandating medications shown to be damaging, failing to provide information on easy home prophylactic or mitigating measures then this is plainly malfeasance it would seem.
Does this malfeasance translate into a legal actionable breach anywhere, any how?

 

[Tim W]

No.

 

[arthur brogard]

That's interesting. So the tort of negligence applies all over the place but not to public officials, for instance.. might explain a lot...

 

[Rod]

When public officials, Dept Heads and such, particularly in Health, are charged with acting in the interests of their clients and it can be shown the measures they have taken are NOT in the best interests ....

Possibly

.... such as useless masking, denying access to proven medications, mandating medications shown to be damaging

No. You can try like others have - and likely fail, like the others have. If there was a market for taking bets on who would win the case, and my ethics allowed me, I'd seriously consider betting significant savings against you winning.