White v. Diaz
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Saxe, J.
The resolution of proximate cause issues has been troubling *135courts and legal scholars for centuries, as they have struggled to articulate a single rule that clearly differentiates cases in which a negligent party may be held liable for resulting harm from cases in which the resulting harm is too remote or unforeseeable (see e.g. Palsgraf v Long Is. R.R. Co., 248 NY 339 [1928]; Carpenter, Workable Rules for Determining Proximate Cause, 20 Cal L Rev 229 [1932]; see generally Prosser and Keeton, Torts § 41, at 263 n 1 [5th ed] [and articles cited therein]). As…
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