Jennifer v. State

KRAUSER, Judge.

While working in the kitchen of the Central Laundry Facility of the Maryland Division of Correction, prison inmate Dave Shawn Jennifer was attacked and injured by fellow prisoner and co-worker, Stanley B. Taylor. Jennifer brought an action in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City against Taylor for battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress, and *214against the State of Maryland1 for violations of Article 25 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights, but his suit proved unavailing. Holding that Jennifer’s exclusive remedy against the State lay with the Sundry Claims Board,…