Topic: failure to act is not an affirmative act under the state-cr… · Go Syfert
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3 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 18 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Cartwright v. Marine City.

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1 Cartwright v. Marine City Anchor
ca6 · 2003
green “failure to act is not an affirmative act under the state-created danger theory.” 11
2 Cartwright v. Marine City
ca6 · 2003
green “the question is not whether the victim was safer during the state action, but whether she was safer before the state action than she was after it.” 5
3 Sargi v. Kent City Board Of Education
ca6 · 1995
green “there is no evidence that the officers took any affirmative action that exposed decedent to any danger to which she was not already exposed.” 2

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