BCS Services, Inc. v. HEARTWOOD 88, LLC

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stressing that a “plaintiff doesn’t have to prove a series of negatives,” adding that “he doesn’t have to offer evidence which positively excludes every other possible cause”
• discussing that the only intervening “cause and effect” ’ was “straightforward” and predictable and as á result did hot “weaken the inference” of causation
• reversing dismissal at summary judgment and remanding for trial on question of damages where plaintiffs’ evidence established that defendants’ actions were proximate cause of injury
• “[T]he burden of proving an ‘intervening cause’—something which snaps the ‘causal chain’ (that is, operates as a ‘superseding cause,’ wiping out the defendant's liability
• “The causal relation between a defendant’s act and a plaintiffs injury, like that required to establish standing under Article III of the Constitution, need only be probable.”
• almost 85 percent of the winning bids

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).