Turner v. Jordan

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that an appeal from a grant of a new trial must be by permissive interlocutory appeal
• stating that generally “a person has a duty to use reasonable care to refrain from conduct that will foreseeably cause injury to others.”
• noting that the case did not involve the necessity of expert proof but holding that it suggested that expert proof is necessary to determine the acceptable standard for a psychiatrist to protect a nurse from a violent patient
• imposing a duty on a psychiatrist to take reasonable measures to protect a nurse in the psychiatric unit from the injuries she sustained at the hands of a dangerous patient
• addressing the comparative fault of a psychiatrist for failure to warn of a patient’s dangerous propensities
• imposing a duty on a psychiatrist to take reasonable measures to protect a nurse in the psychiatric unit from the injuries she sustained at the hands of a dangerous patient

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).