Constance P. Fox v. Roy S. Custis

Summary

The Court affirmed dismissal of the plaintiffs' negligence actions against parole officers arising from a parolee's subsequent violent crimes. It held that the officers neither took charge of nor exercised sufficient control over the parolee to create a special relationship imposing a duty to control his conduct, and that the governing statute gave them discretion rather than requiring automatic arrest for every parole violation.