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· 6/29/2005

Schroder v. City of Fort Thomas

Citations

  • 412 F.3d 724
  • 2005 WL 1529445

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the failure to respond to parents’ complaints about the failure to enforce a residential speed limit was not an affirmative act
  • holding that traffic laws and enforcement practices posed “a general traffic risk to pedestrians and other automobiles”
  • featuring an alleged state-created-danger claim based on the city's creation of a street and setting the speed limit to 25 miles-per-hour
  • failing to respond to parental complaints about the lack of enforcement of a residential speed limit in a specific neighborhood was not an affirmative act
  • failing to respond to parental complaints about the lack of enforcement of a residential speed limit was not an affirmative act
  • rejecting the existence of a special danger where the state’s actions “did not create a ‘special danger’ to a discrete class of individuals (of which the [plaintiff] was a member)” (emphasis added)

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Judges: Cole, Sutton, Zatkoff

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