If on private land you are trespassing and engaged in
de minimis damaging of signs since some effort goes into placing them and are probably guilty of a petty offense or two of criminal mischief and trespassing.
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.
It seems to me that if the causal «contribution» of some causal act to the plaintiff's injury is so minor as to be
de minimis (trivial) that is a
damages question, not an causation of injury question.
On the
de minimis front, a prior factor (event, condition, whatever) is either necessary for the occurrence of the injury (harm,
damage) or it is not.
I would like it if you developed your argument that
de minimis is a
damages issue, not a causation issue, more fully.
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.