Armijo Ex Rel. Chavez v. Wagon Mound Public Schools

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• concluding that a state actor cannot be liable for a pre-existent danger, “even if the state put the plaintiff back in that same danger”
• stating that schools have no duty to protect students from assaults by other students under the Due Process Clause
• finding that returning a suicidal special-education student to his home, where he had access to firearms, “could be construed as conscience-shocking” behavior sufficient to render summary judgment inappropriate
• concluding state actor not liable for pre-existing danger “even if the state put the plaintiff back in that same danger”
• holding school did not owe a duty to protect a student from committing suicide at home
• determining that “by [leaving the plaintiff alone], knowing of [the plaintiff’s] vulnerability and risks of being left alone at home, [defendants] acted recklessly in conscious disregard of the risk of suicide”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).