DeMontiney v. Desert Manor Convalescent Center Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that when a county provided mental health services through a contractor, it could not delegate “the overriding duty to provide care and treatment” to involuntary commitment patients
• finding that a special relationship existed under Section 314A between a private health care facility and a suicidal patient
• recognizing a special relationship exists “[w]hen an institution . . . is charged with the care and custody of persons who it knows will be likely to harm themselves”
• turning, to the state statute governing contracts between county jails and healthcare providers to determine the scope of the duty to provide adequate medical care to a detainee
• applying Restatement § 314A and noting \duty to protect the other against unreasonable risk of harm extends to risks arising from the acts of the injured party himself\
• applying Restatement § 314A and noting “duty to protect the other against unreasonable risk of harm extends to risks arising from the acts of the injured party himself’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).