Hildenbrand v. Cox

How courts have described this case

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• Noting its frequent reliance on the Restatement [Second], the court points to § 314A as instructive on law enforcement officers’ “special duty to aid and protect” arrestees.
• disregarding summary judgment affidavit because it was not supported by personal knowledge and would not be admissible in evidence
• affirming summary judgment dismissing tort claim by estate of drunk driver who died in accident shortly after police questioned but failed to arrest him following his collision with a planter on the town square
• affirming summary judgment dismissing tort claim by estate of drunk driver who died in accident shortly after police questioned but failed to arrest him following his collision with a planter on the town square
• affirming summary judgment dismissing tort claim by estate of drunk driver who died in accident shortly after police questioned but failed to arrest him following his collision with a planter on the town square
• decision by police whether to take an intoxicated person into custody is permissive rather than mandatory

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).