Paulman v. Cheney

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that when a failed sterilization procedure results in the birth of a normal, healthy child, recovery of damages is limited to costs associated with the pregnancy.
• “[L]egal responsibility must be limited to those causes which are so closely connected with the result and of such significance that the law is justified in imposing liability.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).