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· 6/10/1994

William D. Reardon v. Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Company

Citations

  • 26 F.3d 52
  • 1994 U.S. App. LEXIS 14207
  • 1994 WL 247923

How courts have described this case

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

  • under Learned Hand’s formula for negligence, an injury is not “foreseeable” if the costs of precautions prohibitively exceed the expected costs of a likely accident
  • \to say that an injury is not ’foreseeable’ is simply to say that the probability of loss is low\
  • dismissal for noncompliance with local rule
  • dismissal for noncompliance with local rule
  • dismissal for noncompliance with local rule
  • dismissal for noncompliance with local rule

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Judges: Easterbrook, Ripple, Dillin

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