Scovill v. City of Astoria

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, where the police took no action when a visibly intoxicated person left in their care walked out of the police sta- tion, the failure to take action under former ORS 426.460(1) (1993), renumbered ORS 430.399 (1995
• reversing trial court determination under OEC 104(1) that evidence was relevant on ground on which trial court relied
• reversing trial court determination under OEC 104(1) that evidence was relevant on ground on which trial court relied
• addressing whether statutory text, construed in its totality, discloses whether the legislature “intended that a tort remedy would arise from breach of a duty created or imposed by statute”
• violation of statute that requires peace officers to take intoxicated persons into custody may give rise to action in statutory tort
• a limitation on liability for actions taken pursuant to a statute did not limit liability for the failure to take action required by the statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).