Mrs. Palsgraf, Meet Enviromental Law
Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy 2024-10-03
Summary:
Today in my first-year Torts class, I teach the Palsgraf case, one of those cases that every lawyer knows by heart. More about Palsgraf in a moment. It’s a tort case, so it won’t surprise you that oil companies use similar arguments against having to pay damages for climate change. But it may be more …