Jackson v. Saginaw County

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that a court may determine issues of gross negligence where reasonable minds could not differ on the issue
• recognizing that a court may determine issues of gross negligence where reasonable minds could not differ on the issue
• holding that, even after drawing all reasonable inferences in favor of the plaintiff, “reasonable minds could not differ in concluding” that a jail physician’s failure to diagnose the plaintiff’s throat cancer “could not amount to gross negligence as defined in the statute”
• inmate must prove “gross negligence” by county jail doctor to sue in tort
• “In reviewing a grant of summary disposition, an appellate court must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, and make all legitimate inferences in favor of the nonmoving party.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).