N.D. v. Department of Children & Family Services

How courts have described this case

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

• “although the jury is entitled to disbelieve any evidence, it may not draw a contrary inference on the basis of that disbelief’
• test of proximate cause is whether defendant’s conduct is substantial factor in bringing about plaintiffs injuries
• “it is well established that, although the [fact finder] is entitled to disbelieve any evidence, it may not draw a contrary inference on the basis of that disbelief’
• “[T]he test of proximate cause is whether the defendant’s conduct is a substantial factor in bringing about the plaintiff’s injuries.”
• “The verdict must be set aside if we determine that the jury could not have reasonably concluded that that such conduct legally caused the plaintiff’s injuries.” (citation omitted)
• ‘‘[r]emote or trivial [actual] causes are generally rejected because the determination of the responsibility for another’s injury is much too important to be distracted by explorations for obscure consequences or inconsequential causes’’ [internal quo- tation marks omitted]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).