Court Opinion

ID: 9495395
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 16:01:49.57556+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:56:59.806856
License: Public Domain

EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge,
concurring in the judgment only.
See Walton v. Alexander, 44 F.3d 1297, 1306 (5th Cir.1995)(en banc)(“In sum, we hold that a ‘special relationship’ arises between a person and the state only when this person is involuntarily confined against his will through the affirmative exercise of state power. Absent this ‘special relationship,’ the state has no duty to protect nor liability from failing to protect a person under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment from violence at the hands of a private actor.” (emphasis added)).