Law Homework Help

Chapter 11 – Dwares v. City of New York

1. List all the facts relevant to deciding whether NYPD officers allowed Kreitman to beat Steven Dwares.
2. Summarize the Court’s arguments applying the state-created-danger rule to the facts of this case.
3. Do you believe it should be the federal courts’ “business” to decide when police officers are liable when private people beat up other individuals? If you do, who should make these decisions? State courts? Legislatures? Special panels of experts? Explain your answer.

Chapter 12 – Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzalez

1. Summarize the majority opinion’s arguments supporting its conclusion that Gonzalez has no constitutional right to have the Castle Rock police enforce the restraining order against her husband.
2. Summarize the dissent’s arguments supporting its conclusion that Gonzalez does have a constitutional right to have the Castle Rock police enforce the restraining order against her husband.
3. Do you think the Colorado “mandatory” enforcement statute intended to take away the Castle Rock Police Department’s discretion in enforcing the restraining order? Defend your answer.
4. How important is it that Colorado was one of a number of states enacting mandatory enforcement of restraining orders in domestic abuse cases because of the widespread non-enforcement of restraining orders in domestic violence cases?