Walters v. Hampton

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that failure of police to prosecute a person who later shot the plaintiff was not the factual cause of the plaintiff's injury
• holding that failure of police to prosecute a person who later shot the plaintiff was not the factual cause of the plaintiffs injury.
• holding it is inappropriate for courts to provide relief in tort to a citizen who sued the city for its negligence to protect him from a criminal attack
• city cannot be made “insurer” against every harm posed by criminal act
• city cannot be made \insurer\ against every harm posed by criminal act
• police chief's duty to prosecute all ordinance violations creates no individual duty

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).