Comcast Corp. v. National Assn. of African-American Owned Media
Supreme Court of the United States
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gorsuch
*1013 Few legal principles are better established than the rule requiring a plaintiff to establish causation. In the law of torts, this usually means a plaintiff must first plead and then prove that its injury would not have occurred "but for" the defendant's unlawful conduct. The plaintiffs before us suggest that 42 U.S.C. § 1981 departs from this traditional arrangement. But looking to this particular statute's text and history, we see no evidence of an exception.
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This case began after negotiations between two media companies failed. African-American entrepreneur Byron Allen owns Entertainment…
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