Ashby v. City of Louisville

How courts have described this case

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• holding that municipal policemen were entitled to qualified official immunity as set forth in Restatement (Second) of Torts § 895D(3)
• holding that subsection (b) of KRS 65.2003(3) applied only “to situations which arise out of ‘the exercise of judicial, quasi-judicial, legislative and quasi-legislative authority’ and not to those which arise out of the exercise of other types of authority.”
• holding CALGA codified an already judicially recognized exception to the rule of municipal tort liability
• holding CALGA codified an already judicially recognized exception to the rule of municipal tort liability
• “However, the general rule of thumb, in the absence of some ‘special relationship,’ is that a municipality or a law enforcement agency or official does not owe individual citizens a duty to protect them from crime.”

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