Sherry Allen and Wayne Allen v. District of Columbia

This is not a public duty doctrine case— at least not as the public duty doctrine has ever been conceived by this court. As its name suggests, the ostensible goal in applying this doctrine, at least at first, was to discern whether the District had an actionable duty of care when its agents were alleged to have acted negligently. But there should be no question that the District owed a duty of care to Eric Allen. The District, through its FEMS agents, screened Mr. Allen and invited him to the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services (FEMS) Training Academy to take FEMS’s…