The difficulty is, however, that even while acknowledging the sympathy that all must feel for people afflicted with painful, debilitating physical ailments that cannot be remedied, the court cannot take the place of Congress.
It may be that it is the obnoxious thing in its mildest and least repulsive form; but illegitimate and unconstitutional practices get their first footing in that way, namely, by silent approaches and slight deviations from legal modes of procedure.
Does a hospital treating a patient in constructive police custody who dies at the hospital from gunshot wounds inflicted by police owe a duty to the decedent’s relatives to locate and notify them? We conclude that the hospital does not owe such a duty.
JUSTICE BREYER: Can I make that statement in an opinion, and you’ll say, that’s right?
MR. CLEMENT: I think what you could say —
JUSTICE BREYER: Can I say that?
MR. CLEMENT: I don’t think you can say just that.
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