Legal Opinion
White v. Beasley
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided August 1, 1996No. 101350, Calendar No. 5PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBrickley, C.J.
This case requires that we decide if the public-duty doctrine should still be recognized in Michigan and, if it should, to define the limits of the special-relationship exception to that doctrine as applied to police officers. We conclude that the public-duty doctrine remains valid in Michigan. We also conclude that the most appropriate special-relationship test for examining the relationship between police officers and private individuals is the test articulated by the New York Court of Appeals in Cuffy v City of New York, 69 NY2d 255; 513 NYS2d 372; 505 NE2d 937 (1987).
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2Cases cited36 opinions
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- Shore v. Town of StoningtonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1982
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