Davidson v. City of Westminster

How courts have described this case

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• question of duty to which public versus private duty distinction applies is threshold issue, “beyond which remain the [governmental] immunity barriers” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• \Conduct to be extreme and outrageous must be so extreme as to exceed all bounds of that usually tolerated in a civilized community.\
• “Conduct to be extreme and outrageous must be so extreme as to exceed all bounds of that usually tolerated in a civilized community.”
• officers surveilling site of assaults identify suspect but are under no duty to warn plaintiff who was subsequently stabbed by the suspect
• officers surveilling site of assaults identify suspect but are under no duty to warn plaintiff who was subsequently stabbed by the suspect
• “conduct to be outrageous must be so extreme as to exceed all bounds of that usually tolerated in a civilized community”

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