Ohio SUPCO rules on marijuana metabolites role in crash

The Ohio Supreme Court handed down a decision this week that is likely to impact how courts handle people who have marijuana ...

Opinion: We can reclaim our streets without criminalizing homelessness

By providing the full array of housing, programs and services that fully meets the needs of our unhoused neighbors, and ...
manilatimes

The ‘proximate cause’ doctrine

My friend caused a vehicular accident and hit a 5-year-old boy who was then unsupervised by his parents. My question is simple: can we shift the liability to the parents of the boy, who were negligent ...
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DPWH says severe overloading proximate cause of Isabela bridge collapse

MANILA, Philippines — While the unique design of the Cabagan-Sta Maria Bridge might have contributed to its collapse, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) insisted that severe ...
Reason

Second Amendment Roundup: Supreme Court Should Resolve Proximate Cause in S&W v. Mexico

As I posted here, the March 4 oral argument in Smith & Wesson Brands v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos appeared to go well for S&W and not well for Mexico. Mexico's lawsuit seeks to hold America's federally ...
ssir.org

How Funder Collaboratives Are Supporting Proximate Organizations in Africa

Philanthropic collaboratives are growing in popularity in Africa and share many similarities with their global peers, but they also have their own distinguishing traits. For one thing, African ...
Wall Street Journal

A Lawsuit Targeting Gun Makers Would Hit Us All

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Joe Sternberg, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Photo: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters/Tom Williams/Zuma Press/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP ...
The New York Times

New York City Landlord Wants You Out? There Had Better Be ‘Good Cause.’

Renters are feeling emboldened by a new law that can help them hang onto their homes and fight bank-breaking rent increases during lease renewals. By Mihir Zaveri Last winter, Eileen Kelley received a ...
American Bar Association

The Persistence of Tort Duty

Unfortunately for the scholars, courts don’t always embrace their sophisticated theoretical reconstructions of tort law and faithfully apply them to the cases at hand. Instead, the time-honored common ...
manilastandard

Stabbing is the proximate cause of death

“Sometimes an aggressor does not intend the serious consequences of his acts.” Sometimes an aggressor does not intend the serious consequences of his acts. However, if a person commits a felony, “[he ...
Yahoo! Sports

NBA institutes new proximate contact rule for challenging out-of-bounds calls

NEW YORK — With just 47 seconds left in the fourth quarter of Game 2 of the 2024 Western Conference finals, the Dallas Mavericks trailed the Minnesota Timberwolves 108-106 and Minnesota’s Jaden ...