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

Resource 5 . 2 . 1 . 3

half an hour

Coleman v. Soccer Ass'n ("The Late Contributory Negligence Case")

Jordan Wallace-Wolf

What is the difference between contributory and comparative negligence? What is the trend in U.S. jurisdictions and why does this court decide as it does?

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