Negligence: Proximate Cause

Proximate cause and traumatic neurosis.

Because there is not definite scientific knowledge about posttraumatic neurosis, a psychiatrist involved in evaluating allegations of psychiatric impairment in negligence law cases can make only a circumscribed contribution. Nevertheless, the contribution can be an important one.

The Proximate Cause of Fever

IN selecting a subject for the present discourse, I have been more influenced by attachment to certain early opinions, than by confidence of abili ty to defend them. Such is the diversity of symptoms, and so varied are the conditions of the system, under which fever is acknowledged to exist, that no definition has yet been settled to which some objection might not be offered. Still less stable ...

Human population growth as proximate cause of wetland dynamics

The study examined the influence of population as proximate cause of wetland dynamics in the lower Ogun river basin of southwestern, Nigeria. Both primary and secondary data were used for the study. The primary data included 100 questionnaires administered and distributed among the fadama users group representing 10% of the estimated population of the group. Satellite images of years 1972, 1984...

On a Commerce Clause-derived, Aggregate Proximate Cause Theory

Should possessors and manufacturers of child pornography be treated identically for purposes of victim compensation? Various circuit courts of appeals say no. The Fifth Circuit, in Paroline II, took a different approach and said yes. In an en banc opinion, the Fifth Circuit held that 18 U.S.C. § 2259, the federal statute providing mandatory restitution for victims of child exploitation and abus...

Professional Negligence