Town Of Castle Rock V. Gonzales
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Date decided | 2005 |
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Ruling court | Supreme Court of the United States |
Dissent | Stevens |
Ginsburg | |
Date argued | 2005 |
Majority | Scalia |
Rehnquist | |
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ID | 963127 |
About Town Of Castle Rock V. Gonzales
Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U. S. 748, is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled, 7–2, that a town and its police department could not be sued under 42 U. S. C. § 1983 for failing to enforce a restraining order, which had led to the murder of a woman's three children by her estranged husband.