G. L. v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding hospital was not vicariously liable for sexual assault by respiratory therapist on an unconscious patient
• stating \three premises\ for reconsideration of a nonstatutory rule or doctrine
• neither judicial fashion nor personal policy preference is a sufficient ground for reversing a well-established rule
• neither judicial fashion nor personal policy preference is a sufficient ground for reversing a well-established rule
• “judicial fashion or personal policy preference” are not “sufficient grounds” to reverse well established precedent
• court may reconsider court-created common-law rule when earlier case was “wrong when it was decided”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).