Appleton v. Town of Hudson

How courts have described this case

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• no special duty where police failed to take action in ongoing sale of liquor to minors
• no special duty where police failed to take action in ongoing sale of liquor to minors
• police knowledge of teenagers’ tendency to drink and street-race cars in town insufficient to establish particular duty to individual struck by one teenager
• whether a plaintiff s rights have been interfered with need not be decided where, taking all inferences in favor of the plaintiff, there are insufficient allegations that a defendant engaged in “threats, intimidation or coercion”
• “we may assume that the situation was indeed dangerous and that town officials ought to have done something. But the obligation to provide adequate police protection . . . is precisely the type of general duty which the ‘public duty’ rule protects”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).