Gretchen D. Cuyler, Special Administrator of the Estate of Christian Cuyler, Deceased v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• “Nothing in the statute’s text indicates that the legislature meant to expand the scope of tort liability to encompass people who fail to report child abuse and are thus analogous to bystanders who fail to intervene to prevent injuries by third parties.”
• \[T]he mere fact that a statute defines due care does not in and of itself create a duty enforceable by tort law.\
• “[T]he mere fact that a statute defines due care does not in and of itself create a duty enforceable by tort law.. . . Otherwise every statute that specified a standard of care would be automatically enforceable by tort suits for damages[.]” (emphasis in original)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).