Should the pet supply chain have foreseen that selling a diseased hamster might result in the death of a liver transplant recipient? Or is the proximate cause insufficiently proximate? (Laurel Sweet, Boston Herald, Apr. 9; Jonathan Turley).
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
by Walter Olson on April 14, 2008
Should the pet supply chain have foreseen that selling a diseased hamster might result in the death of a liver transplant recipient? Or is the proximate cause insufficiently proximate? (Laurel Sweet, Boston Herald, Apr. 9; Jonathan Turley).

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