Little v. Utah State Division of Family Services

How courts have described this case

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

• although state agency had no duty to act, it assumed duty of care once it acted by placing minor in foster care
• agency liable for negligent failure to adequately train foster parents in care of autistic child
• in light of agency’s failure to respond to signs of repeated injuries to foster child, murder of foster child in foster home was not intervening proximate cause of her death
• “If the State posits immunity on . . . an exercise of discretion, it must make a showing that a conscious balancing of risks and advantages took place.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).