Madden v. Kuehn

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing invalidity of Mower rationale and adopting “actions and duties unique to a particular public office” as standard for sovereign immunity
• “There is nothing unduly burdensome in holding that [prison physicians] owe inmates whom they treat the same duty of care which they owe their patients in private practice.”
• in medical malpractice case for death of an inmate, sheriff was not liable for proximately causing decedent’s death when he turned decedent over to the Department of Corrections and informed Department of his condition
• in medical malpractice case for death of an inmate, sheriff was not liable for proximately causing decedent's death when he turned decedent over to the Department of Corrections and informed Department of his condition
• an inmate treated by a physician at the correctional facility
• an inmate treated by a physician at the correctional facility

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).