DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services
The Due Process Clause generally does not impose an affirmative duty on the state to protect a person from private violence absent custody or state-created exceptions recognized in later law.
- Evidence ID
evidence:v724:606654d6c4e557af1e55- Verification
- VERIFIED_BOUNDED_EVIDENCE_PROPOSITION
- Support direction
- CONTRADICTS_OR_LIMITS
- Publisher
- Cornell Legal Information Institute; opinion authored by the U.S. Supreme Court
- Jurisdiction
- United States
Exact source
DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services
Scope and limitations
Statutory duties, state tort law and special-relationship/state-created-danger doctrines remain distinct.
Verification is bounded to the recorded proposition. It does not independently verify the complete issue or establish every relationship that might be plausible.