Fast Eddie's v. Hall

How courts have described this case

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• noting further that even assuming the attending circumstances showed a stronger chain of causation, “Lamb’s intentional criminal acts were the intervening cause of Hall’s death which broke the causal chain between Fast Eddie’s negligence and Hall’s sexual assault and death”
• tavern had no common law duty to protect female patron from sexual assault and murder committed by assailant who was another patron of the tavern
• tavern had no common law duty to protect female patron from sexual assault and murder committed by assailant who was another patron of the tavern
• third party’s criminal act breaks the causal chain between the alleged negligence and the resulting harm
• third party's criminal act breaks the causal chain between the alleged negligence and the resulting harm
• dramshop violation was not the proximate cause of drunken bar patron’s rape and murder by other drunken bar patron because the series of events leading to the crimes were not reasonably foreseeable and the AIP’s intentional criminal acts were an intervening cause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).