Thelen v. City of Billings

How courts have described this case

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

• noting “proximate cause” as a “required element” in an inverse condemnation claim” but that it “has not been clearly defined in Montana law”
• defendant-movants for summary judgment, though required to show entitlement to judgment as a matter of law, are not required to “prove the reverse of Plaintiffs’ case” to satisfy the initial burden of proof at summary judgment
• “Liability, in any cause of action, attaches if the plaintiff can 9 prove first that defendant’s act is a cause in fact of injury and then that the injury is the direct or indirect result, proximately caused by the negligent act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).