White v. City of Philadelphia

How courts have described this case

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

• “The [o]fficers did nothing to place [the victim] in jeopardy—they only failed to protect [her] from private violence. Such inaction does not create liability.”
• victim who was the subject of a 911 call by third parties was not a “foreseeable victim” of defendant police officers’ inaction “in a tort sense.”
• “the right to be rescued by the police in response to a 911 call under the facts alleged in the complaint was [not] clearly established under the Fourteenth Amendment;” it was not a right about which a reasonable officer would have known

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).