Duong v. County of Arapahoe

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• an affirmative duty to protect a private person does not arise from the state's knowledge of the individual's predicament or from its expression of intent to help, but from a limitation which it has imposed on his or her freedom to act independently
• an affirmative duty to protect a private person does not arise from the state’s knowledge of the individual’s predicament or from its expression of intent to help, but from a limitation which it has imposed on his or her freedom to act independently

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