Cope v. Utah Valley State College

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the public duty doctrine did not bar the plaintiffs’ negligence claim against the government actor despite the absence of a special relationship
• framing the reliance assessment as whether overturning precedent would \undermine the public's substantial reliance upon an established legal principle\
• limiting application of the public-duty doctrine to omissions and clarifying that the doctrine does not include affirmative acts
• surveying authorities to conclude the “public duty doctrine is recognized in most jurisdictions” and- rejecting argument to abandon the doctrine
• surveying authorities to conclude the “public duty doctrine is recognized in most jurisdictions” and rejecting argument to abandon the doctrine
• surveying authorities to conclude the “public duty doctrine is recognized in most jurisdictions” and rejecting argument to abandon the doctrine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).