Laman v. Big Spring State Hospital

How courts have described this case

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• injury based on failure to properly supervise patient is not injury caused by condition or use of property
• injury based on failure to properly supervise patient is not injury caused by condition or use of property
• placement of patient in room with open door is not use of personal property
• no cause of action for premises defect where no defect, shortcoming, or imperfection in room or door
• immunity not waived for cause of action based upon sexual assault of female psychiatric patient who had been temporarily placed in men’s hall and left in unlocked room because property does not cause injury if it does no more than furnish the condition that makes the injury possible
• immunity not waived for cause of action based upon sexual assault of female psychiatric patient who had been temporarily placed in men’s hall and left in unlocked room because property does not cause injury if it does no more than furnish the condition that makes the injury possible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).