TRANS-CANADA ENTERPRISES, LTD., ET AL.

v.

MUCKLESHOOT INDIAN TRIBE ET AL.; AND PORT OF TACOMA V. PUYALLUP INDIAN TRIBE

Citator

Cited By (25 total)

• Daniels v. Williams, 474 U.S. 327 (U.S. 1986)
  …ent’s sovereign immunity defense would fail under Virginia law. Because of the inconsistent approaches taken by lower courts in determining when tortious conduct by state officials rises to the level of a constitutional tort, see Jackson v. Joliet, 465 U. S. 1049, 1050 (1984) (White, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari) (collecting cases), and the apparent lack of adequate guidance from this Court, we granted certiorari. 469 U. S. 1207 (1985). We now affirm. In Parratt v. Taylor, we granted certiorari,…
• Wood v. Ostrander, 879 F.2d 583 (9th Cir. 1989)
  …1987), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 108 S.Ct. 772, 98 L.Ed.2d 859 (1988), defendants have not raised the proximate cause argument on appeal. We have not examined its merits. . Jackson v. City of Joliet, 715 F. 2d 1200, 1206 (7th Cir.1983), cert. denied, 465 U.S. 1049, 104 S.Ct. 1325, 79 L.Ed.2d 720 (1984), is not contra. There, the court found that a grossly negligent rescue attempt was not actionable under section 1983 where the plaintiffs decedents were already trapped in a burning car when the police arrived.…
• Hamilton v. Cannon, 80 F.3d 1525 (11th Cir. 1996)
  …§ 1292(b), or a decision denying qualified immunity. . There is no general duty to rescue a stranger in distress, even if the rescue can easily be accomplished. See, e.g., Jackson v. City of Joliet, 715 F. 2d 1200, 1202 (7th Cir.1983), cert. denied, 465 U.S. 1049, 104 S.Ct. 1325, 79 L.Ed.2d 720 (1984). And the fact that the defendant is a public officer adds nothing. "[A] mere failure to rescue is not tortious just because the defendant is a public officer whose official duties include aiding people in dis…