Pappas v. City of Lebanon

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that this exception “does not include non-eustodial relationships”
• “Importantly, courts are generally in agreement that the ‘special relationship’ doctrine does not apply to a school setting.”
• “The touchstone of the ‘special relationship’ exception to the DeShaney rule is the requirement that the state has somehow placed the victim within its custody.”
• “While the failure to create greater security . . . may, at best and under certain circumstances, support some finding of state law negligence, it cannot support a Constitutional violation based upon a state created danger theory of liability.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).