Morton v. Maricopa County

How courts have described this case

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• holding that no special relationship existed because the purpose of “identifying human remains is primarily to foster public safety through the investigation of suspected homicides,” and this function only “incidentally benefits friends and relatives”
• holding that no special relationship existed because the purpose of “identifying human remains is primarily to foster public safety through the investigation of suspected homicides,” and this function only “incidentally benefits friends and relatives”
• county medical examiner’s office liable for negligently preventing proper interment or cremation of skeletal remains
• \`[T]he undertaking by police to make a [missing person] report and assure [that] appropriate action will be taken does not create a \special relationship\ from which \duty\ is born.'\
• “‘[T]he undertaking by police to make a [missing person] report and assure [that] appropriate action will be taken does not create a “special relationship” from which “duty” is born.’”
• analyzing whether a “special relationship” exists under a negligence framework

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).