City of Kotzebue v. McLean

How courts have described this case

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• holding a city which undertakes to provide police protection to its residents has a duty to exercise reasonable care in providing those services
• recognizing police duty to use reasonable care in responding to life threatening calls
• stating the district court is in the best position to determine credibility and reasonableness of attorney’s claim of surprise by undisclosed evidence
• imposing, duty of care in responding to identified caller who threatened to kill
• applying D.S.W. factors to conclude that \under the particular facts of this case” city owed \an actionable duty of care” to victim stabbed by perpetrator who had warned police of his intent to stab victim
• police officer who responded to a life-threatening phone call owed a duty of reasonable care to protect the plaintiff

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).