McLean v. City of New York

How courts have described this case

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

• statute authorizing licensing and inspection of day care centers does not create a duty toward parent of child injured at center that allegedly failed inspection
• “[M]inisterial acts may support liability only where a special duty is found.”
• “We have long 4 followed the rule that an agency of government is not liable for the negligent 5 performance of a governmental function unless there existed a special duty to 6 the injured person, in contrast to a general duty owed to the public.” (internal 7 quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).