Law

'Sole Proximate Cause' Meets 'Everyone Was Doing It'

In his column on Construction Accident Litigation, Brian J. Shoot discusses the recent 'Biaca-Neto' case, where this was the principal issue. Should the plaintiff be permitted to recover under section ...
Law

But What About But-For Causation? Challenging Legal Malpractice Claims for Lack of Proximate Cause

Conventional wisdom dictates that a lawyer being sued for legal malpractice in New York will rarely win a motion to dismiss based on lack of causation. Nevertheless, the case law suggests that a ...
Wall Street Journal

A Lawsuit Targeting Gun Makers Would Hit Us All

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Joe Sternberg, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Photo: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters/Tom Williams/Zuma Press/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP ...
Springfield News-Leader

Gun violence in U.S. has clear proximate cause: access to firearms

Kyler Sherman-Wilkins, Ph.D. With the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in which at least 19 children and two teachers were massacred, American exceptionalism is again on full display. As of ...