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· 2/21/2002

Sawyer v. Wight

Citations

  • 196 F. Supp. 2d 220
  • 2002 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5530
  • 2002 WL 507031

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that where Rule 56.1 has not been properly followed, courts may “discretionarily choose to search the record of their own accord” (internal citations omitted)
  • “Super[s]eding events, as opposed to merely intervening ones, may break the causal chain and defeat proximate causation.”

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Judges: Platt

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