Halliburton Co. v. Eastern Cement Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• reversing damages award for lost profits because there was no causal connection between the breaches and possible future profits lost based on unrealized future events—“[a]ll that was offered was a hope of commercial fortune hanging from a thin thread of ‘what- ifs’”
• “the cause for any contemporary event can, if one is inclined to do so, be connected in a seemingly logical chain of circumstances and occurrences all the way back to creation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).