Ferree v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Utah State Department of Corrections did not owe a duty to plaintiff in granting a prisoner a two-day release
• holding that the Utah State Department of Corrections did not owe a duty to plaintiff in granting a prisoner a two‐day release
• finding that corrections officers owe no duty of care to the general public because it would be contrary to the public policy of promoting rehabilitative programs
• stating that when defendants owed no duty of care toward injured victim, court need not reach questions raised by doctrine of sovereign immunity
• stating that when defendants owed no duty of care toward injured victim, court need not reach questions raised by doctrine of sovereign immunity
• finding that state corrections officers only had a duty to the public at large and did not owe an individual duty to victim to prevent prison inmate on weekend release from murdering victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).