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

Resource 4 . 4 . 1 . 3 . 1

5 minutes

Summers v. Tice ("The Mystery Shooter Crossfire Case")

Jordan Wallace-Wolf

What is this court saying? Is offering a rule about causation, or a rule about the burden of proving causation? What's the difference between them?

Supreme Court of California

33 Cal. 2d 80

L. A. Nos. 20650, 20651

1948-11-17

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