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Torts week 12
Actual Causation:
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Did the defendant cause the plaintiff’s harm?
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When one of Several Defendants did it, bee we can’t tell which one:
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Alternative Liability
Proximate Cause
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Very important in terms of negligent claims
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Must have been reasonably foreseeable
Cardozo’s Approach was that he looked at the foreseeable of plaintiff, and there has to be a
foreseeable outcome.
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Unformatted text preview: Anderson Approach is that everyone owes the world at large a duty to refrain from acts that may unreasonably threaten the safety of others. His factors include:-Natural and continuous sequence-Direct connection without too many intervening causes-Not too attenuated (very far removed conceptually)-Not too remote in time and space Kingston Approach...
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- Tort Law, Proximate and ultimate causation
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