Austin v. City of Scottsdale

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that 17 police are not “a general insurer of safety”
• dispatcher owed duty based on anonymous call regarding death threat against specific person at specific address
• sanction of dismissal “ ‘harsh and not to be invoked except under extreme circumstances’ ”
• “That children are not named plaintiffs but are merely beneficiaries does not preclude them from being ‘parties’ to the litigation.”
• “By establishing a police department, a municipality becomes neither a general insurer of safety nor absolutely liable for all harms to its citizens.”
• duty may exist when acts by police have \narrowed the obligation owed to the general public into a specific obligation owed\ to an individual

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).