Sentences with phrase «de minimis cause»

I'll repeat: the trial judge held that a but - for cause was not a legal but - for cause because it was a a de minimis cause.

If we say that a necessary cause was de minimis cause, we're saying (somehow) that whatever injury that cause has been found to have caused did not alter the injured person's «original position» in any legally material way.

Not exact matches

Liability is there for when you cause damages to someone else that are beyond a de minimis level that you could cover out of pocket.

A natural parent's consent is not required if the parent failed «without justifiable cause to provide more than de minimis contact with the children for at least a year immediately preceding the filing of the adoption petitions.»

In each case, the trial judge seems to have held that a prior event which was necessary for the occurrence of the injury — an event offered by the defendant as something which would have at least been a partial defence — was not a but - for cause because its causal contribution was less than de minimis.

The defendant's negligence need not be the sole cause of the injury so long as it is part of the cause beyond the de minimis range.

[11] Thus, in applying the «but for» test, the trial judge was required to consider not just whether the defendant's conduct was the sole cause of the plaintiff's disabling pain, but also whether the plaintiff had established a substantial connection between the accident and that pain, beyond the de [minimis] level.

Liability is there for when you cause damages to someone else that are beyond a de minimis level that you could cover out of pocket.