Bloch v. General Motors Acceptance Corp.

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• state created immunities cannot be used to limit liability in § 1983 actions filed in state courts
• Supreme Court declined to impose liability for a state’s failure to act in part because the government “was not aware that [the decedent], as distinguished from the public at large, faced any danger”

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