Torts!

Resource 16 . 1 . 1

8 minutes

Howard v. Wal-mart Stores, Inc. : "The 'More-Likely-Than-Not' Standard for Causation"

Jonathan Zittrain,

Jordi Weinstock

Should courts hold that a defendant cannot be proved to "cause" the harm, if the evidence merely supports that it was "more likely than not" that the defendant caused the harm?

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

160 F.3d 358

No. 98-1781

1998-11-03

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