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· 12/11/1967

Tighe v. Roecker

Citations

  • 389 U.S. 1005
  • 88 S. Ct. 563

How courts have described this case

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

  • refusing to apply the special relationship exception to impose upon the state an affirmative duty \to protect the mentally retarded living at home\
  • refusing to apply the special relationship exception to impose upon the state an affirmative duty \to protect the mentally retarded living at home\
  • city and state did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment in reducing or eliminating services to mentally retarded persons living at home
  • even if attending “state-sponsored day programs” amounted to “intermittent custody,” that would not create a duty to protect
  • even if attending “state-sponsored day programs” amounted to “intermittent custody,” that would not create a duty to protect
  • \Full compliance with an injunction amounting to the entirety of the relief sought renders an issue moot.\

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