Yonker v. DEPT. OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERV.

How courts have described this case

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• labeling the situation when the governmental entity gives explicit assurances the \special relationship\ exception
• summarizing negligent investigation case law as requiring \the State [to] act responsibly once it decides to act\
• summarizing negligent investigation case law as requiring “the State [to] act responsibly once it decides to act”
• duty of care arises from RCW 26.44.010, which declares the chapter's purpose to safeguard the welfare of abused and neglected children
• duty of care arises from RCW 26.44.010, which declares the chapter’s purpose to safeguard the welfare of abused and neglected children
• mother and her son, who was allegedly abused, fell within the particular and circumscribed class of individuals the legislature intended to protect in enacting RCW 26.44

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).