Leidy v. Borough of Glenolden

How courts have described this case

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

• illustrating that the “something more” may be an official instigation of private violence, officers “placing] people in harm’s way who would otherwise not have been at risk,” or officers “eut[ting] people off from their private sources of protection”
• “[A] defendant does not ordinarily owe a duty to a plaintiff who is no more a foreseeable victim than the public at large.”
• “The lynchpin of [Witthoeft and Crosby] was that a defendant does not ordinarily owe a duty to a plaintiff who is no more a foreseeable victim than the public at large.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).