Elton v. County of Orange

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the required showing of “balancing the risks and advantages” was not and could not have been made by the county at the demurrer stage
• decisions regarding foster children “may entail the exercise of discretion in a literal sense, but such determinations do not achieve the level of basic policy decisions, and thus do not [warrant immunity]”
• death resulted from beatings over extended period of time

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).