Podcast Episode 578: Law Every 1L Should Know — Proximate Cause and Intervening Causes (Torts)
Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today’s episode covers proximate cause in torts (and the related legal principles of intervening and superseding causes in the chain of causation). We look at an important case in U.S. tort law — Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. And at the end we go through a fact pattern demonstrating how to apply each concept step by step.
In this episode we discuss:
An overview of proximate cause in torts
The Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. case
The distinction between foreseeable plaintiff and foreseeable harm
Intervening and superseding…
The skinny
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