Lucas v. Hospital Authority

How courts have described this case

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• affirming an award of summary judgment to the hospital in a wrongful death action based on a nurse’s conduct in administering a lethal injection to the decedent “to put him out of his misery”
• insufficient nexus for respondeat superior liability to attach where a nurse who was authorized to give certain prescribed injections followed normal procedures but gave unprescribed, lethal injections

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).