Geiger v. Bowersox

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a nurse at a prison “does not owe the general public” a duty, but rather her duty is “owed specifically to the inmates”
• “Lacking such a fear of imminent peril the petition fails to allege an essential element for an assault claim.”
• dismissing assault claim where plaintiff had not alleged \fear of imminent peril\ prior to ingesting what he thought was medicine, but was in fact floor wax
• prison nurse’s duties regarding maintenance and administration of inmates' prescriptions were set by prison policy and thus ministerial
• inmate sufficiently plead negligence claim against prison nurse when he became ill after ingesting medication contaminated with floor wax
• “A battery is an intended, offensive bodily contact with another.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).