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Robert L. Rabin and Stephen D. Sugarman
This publication provides a student with an understanding of ten leading torts cases, focusing on how the litigation was shaped by lawyers, judges and socioeconomic factors, and why the cases have attained landmark status.*
Responsibility: edited by Robert L. Rabin and Stephen D. Sugarman.Imprint: New York, N.Y. : Foundation Press ; [St. Paul, MN] : Thomson/West, 2003.Physical description: v, 290 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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Contents
Contents
Introduction / Robert L. Rabin and Stephen D. Sugarman
United States v. Carroll Towing Co. : the hand formula's home port / Stephen G. Gilles
MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co. : Simplifying the facts while reshaping the law / James A. Henderson, Jr.
Rowland v. Christian : Hallmark of an expansionary era / Robert L. Rabin
Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California : the therapist's dilemma / Peter H. Schuck and Daniel J. Givelber
The wagon mound cases : foreseeability, causation, and Mrs. Palsgraf / Saul Levmore
Hymowitz v. Eli Lilly and Co. : Markets of mothers / Anita Bernstein
Murphy v. Steeplechase Amusement Co. : whilethe timorous stay at home, the adventurous ride the flopper / Kenneth W. Simons
Rylands v. Fletcher : tort law's conscience / Kenneth S.Abraham
Escola v. Coca Cola Bottling Co.: strict products liability unbound / Mark Geistfeld
Vincent v. Lake Erie Transportation Co. : liability for harm caused by necessity / Stephen D. Sugarman.
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