Waste Management, Inc. v. South Central Bell Telephone Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that intervening acts appear as a legal question only at issue once plaintiff establishes causation-in- fact
• “Intervening cause appears to relate more to legal causation than to causation in fact because it does not come into play until after causation in fact has been established.”
• discussing proximate cause as a policy decision by the judiciary to deny liability for otherwise actionable conduct by requiring courts to define the boundary of legal liability using mixed considerations of logic, common sense, justice, policy, and precedent
• \A judgment adjudicating all the claims between all the parties becomes final thirty days after entry....\
• “Thus, as long as its judgment has not become final, the trial court may change its mind after reconsidering the proof and the applicable law”
• “as long as its judgment has not become final, the trial court may change its mind after reconsidering the proof and the applicable law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).