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Title: Social Work Misconduct May Lead to Liability (Practice Update)
Author : Social Work
Release Date : January 01, 2004
Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
Pages : * pages
Size : 172 KB

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"It is as much the duty of Government to render prompt justice against itself, in favor of its citizens, as it is to administer the same between private individuals" (President Abraham Lincoln, First speech to Congress, 1861). In a recent U.S. Court of Appeals case, Currier v. Doran (2001), the court ruled that state-employed social workers can be held liable for the acts of others when those social workers "created the danger" that caused the harm. To establish a proper danger creation claim, a plaintiff must demonstrate that