Morales v. Town of Johnston

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing exception when the government owes a special duty to an individual plaintiff
• recognizing exception when the government owes a special duty to an individual plaintiff
• despite recreational use statute, town owed visiting student-athlete “a special duty of care to protect her from a dangerous condition on the athletic field”
• where high school soccer coaches have statutory immunity from suit, school district cannot be held liable based upon same conduct
• “The public duty doctrine shields the state and its political subdivisions from tort liability arising out of discretionary governmental actions that by their nature are not ordinarily performed by private persons.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).