Efficient Intervening Cause

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1. If the original wrongdoer reasonably could have anticipated the intervening occurrence, does later timing alone relieve…
2. A negligent obstruction forces a cyclist into the ordinary available detour, where a proved continuous consequence of t…
3. A negligent leak contaminates soil. Rain spreads that contamination in an ordinary reasonably anticipated way to neighb…
4. A repairer’s mistake creates a hazard, but an unrelated safety team completely removes it. A separate actor later creat…
5. A wrongdoer argues that a later actor’s separate legal duty always makes that actor an efficient intervening cause. The…
6. Does a victim’s choice necessarily create an efficient intervening cause?
7. Compare ordinary rain spreading negligent contamination with a completely removed hazard followed by a separate new haz…
8. Another actor owed a duty and breached it. Why is that not conclusive supersession?