Plaintiff’s Negligence as Immediate and Proximate Cause

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1. Under the first paragraph of Article 2179, what follows when the plaintiff's own negligence is the immediate and proxim…
2. When the plaintiff's negligence is only contributory and the defendant's lack of care is the immediate and proximate ca…
3. What must be analyzed before choosing between Article 2179's bar and mitigation branches?
4. A court finds that the plaintiff's careless act was the immediate and proximate cause of the injury and establishes no …
5. The defendant's lack of due care is found to be the immediate and proximate cause, while the plaintiff's negligence mer…
6. A defendant negligently drops unsecured building material onto a passerby. The passerby happened to violate an unrelate…
7. In a collision case, the evidence establishes the defendant's excessive speed as the immediate and proximate cause. The…
8. Compare the two branches of Article 2179 and explain why contributory negligence is not automatically an absolute bar.
9. A defendant cites an unrelated careless act by the plaintiff as a reason to deny all damages. Explain the missing analy…
10. Does Article 2179 prescribe a universal fifty-percent reduction whenever contributory negligence is proved? Explain the…
11. Does Article 2179’s complete bar arise simply because the defendant accuses the plaintiff of carelessness?
12. Does Article 2179 make an unsuccessful attempt to avoid injury automatically negligent?