Torts: Basic Fluency in a Fundamental Legal Language (Revised for Fall '24)

Resource 5 . 2 . 1 . 1

31 minutes

Nga Li v. Yellow Cab Co. ("The Early Comparative Negligence Case")

Jordan Wallace-Wolf

This case is unlike many other cases in this casebook, because it uses an ordinary fact pattern as a jumping off point to radically revise the law. What is the doctrine of contributory negligence, and how does the court change it? What issues does it foresee arising from that change? 

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