Topic
Causation
438 published works
Product Liability & Mass Torts Blog
Expert Strategies: Battling Causation in COVID-19 Tort Cases
By Brett F. Clements, Jeffrey D. Skinner
As COVID-19 lawsuits proliferate, businesses and their counsel should prepare for a battle of the experts on causation when there is no direct evidence that a plaintiff’s injury can be…
TortsProf Blog
Engisch on Causation
Richard Wright has translated Karl Engisch on causation into English. The abstract provides:This work by Karl Engisch was, as far as I am aware, the first to reject the traditional…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Lin on Causation in Harris, Bostock and Zarda
Professor Shirley Lin has a guest column in Jurist on this term's SCOTUS cases and their intersection with causation standards. You can find Professor Lin's guest column here:https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2020/05/shirley-lin-aimee-stephens/Sandra Sperino
Illinois Workers Compensation Law Blog
To Win, You Have To Prove An Accident And Causation
By Mike Helfand
I try not to write too overly lawyerly on here, but some things are legal issues that have no plain English explanation. So bear with me on this one. When…
Zachar Law Blog
Can you file a personal injury claim if you feel pain weeks after the accident?
By Chris Zachar
I wasn’t injured initially from my car accident, but it’s been two weeks and now I do feel pain, do I still have a case? Yes. When a symptom of…
Drug & Device Law
Quasi-Guest Post – Plaintiffs’ Beast of Burden: Adverse Event Reports Precede Causation
By Bexis
We're calling this a "quasi" guest post because the author, Reed Smith's Dean Balaes, is actually trying out to join our blogging team. This is his inaugural post, of what…
Drug & Device Law
More Good “Warnings Causation” News from the Taxotere MDL
We are certain that profound revelations – scientific, economic, and political – will arise from the Covid-19 crisis. For now, we comment on bits of knowledge we have gained so…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
What Taylor Swift and Beyonce Teach Us About But-For Causation in Sex Discrimination Cases
By Tracy Thomas
Robin Dembroff, Issa Kohler-Hausmann & Elise Sugarman, What Taylor Swift and Beyoncé Teach Us About Sex and Causes, U. Penn. L. Rev. (forthcoming)In the consolidated cases Altitude Express v. Zarda,…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Comcast and Alternate Causation Structures
In Comcast v. National Association of African-American Owned Media the Supreme Court held that a plaintiff is required to establish “but for” cause to prevail on a claim under 42…
Class Action Countermeasures
Class Actions, Causation and the Coronavirus
As we were drafting this blog post, each of us was sitting in our home offices self-quarantined from the outside world doing our part to flatten-the-curve and keep COVID-19 germs…