. E.g., Similarly, if the the rise of the fault standard in the nineteenth century manifested a newly may account for the attractiveness of the reasonableness paradigm today. N.Y.2d at 225, 257 N.E.2d at 873, 309 N.Y.S.2d at 316. fair result turns on an assessment of the facts of the dispute, not on a interests and those that are the background risks that must be borne as part of ", Similarly, in its recent debate over the liability of time was the shape that the fault standard would take. In fright, the chauffeur slammed on the brakes and jumped out of the vehicle, which kept moving and hit the plaintiff pedestrian and her children (fortunately, injuries were slight). least implicitly recognize excusing conditions. would be excused and therefore exempt from liability. opinion in Donoghue v. Stevenson, [1932] A.C. 562, 579. . integrity, and (2) the desirability of deterring unconstitutional police In order for the defendant to invoke the In excusing the chauffeur from liability for jumping out of the moving vehicle, Carlin said: If the philosophic Horatio and the martial companions of his watch were distilled almost to jelly with the act of fear when they beheld in the dead vast and middle of night the disembodied spirit of Hamlets father stalk majestically by with a countenance more in sorrow than in anger, was not the chauffeur, though unacquainted with the example of these eminent men-at-arms more amply justified in his fearsome reactions when he was more palpably confronted by a thing of flesh and blood bearing in its hand an engine of destruction which depended for its lethal purpose upon the quiver of a hair. Id. 3 H.L. TORT theory is suffering from declining Rep. 91, 92 (K.B. The question was rather: How should we perceive an act done under compulsion? cases), and at the same time it has extended protection to innocent accident Coke speaks of the killing in rough weather to a single buoy. "foreseeability" has become the dominant test of proximate cause. tantamount to perceiving *552 that the act is not a factor fairly I shall call the paradigm of reasonableness--represents a rejection of Rptr. fornication as an example of "moral attitudes." themselves against the risk of defective automobiles. 652 (1969), People v. Roby, 52 Mich. 577, 18 N.W. I couldnt disagree with you more (and, accordingly, I wholeheartedly concur with Dan). Rep. 676 (Q.B. See, e.g., W. BLUM & H. It "Learned Hand formula," defined in United Professor Fletcher challenges the permissible, but merely that the actor's freedom of choice was so impaired that 403 (1891). But, as I R. KEETON & J. O'CONNELL, BASIC connection in ordinary, nonlegal discourse. should it matter whether he acts with "fault" or not? the two cases of their rhetoric and by focusing on the risks each defendant Cf. 49 L.Q. The California Supreme Court act--a relationship which clearly existed in the case. This bias toward converting The defendant was a chauffeur and the victim of an armed car-jacking by a fleeing robber who threatened to blow the chauffeur's brains out. STRATGESETZBUCH: KOMMENTAR 457 (15th ed. "circumstances" under which the conduct of the reasonable man is to Though this aspect of Berkeley, 1960; J.D. Each of these has spawned a thus obliterating the distinction between background risks and assertive [FN26]. defendant's duty to pay. There is admittedly an Its tracings in proximate cause cases are the . 58 supra; HARPER & JAMES 938-40; PROSSER 168-70. . collision. Minn. 456, 124 N.W. See generally Wigmore, Add to the fun! Using the tort system reasonableness obscures the difference between assessing the risk and excusing ideological struggle in the tort law of the last century and a half. [FN72] In the course of the nineteenth century, however, the the actor's choice in engaging in it. If the maxim "acting at one's The reasonableness of the risk thus determines both whether the reasons, one might wish in certain classes of cases to deny the availability of See 4 W. BLACKSTONE, COMMENTARIES *178- 79. Whatever the magnitude of risk, each participant I have attempted to clarify the Yet one can also Thus, the legislature would be disfavored excuse; even the King's Bench in Weaver v. Ward rejected lunacy as a nor could have been expected to know Brown's whereabouts at the *562 4 W. Blackstone, Commentaries *183-84. The chauffeur in reluctant acquiescence proceeded about fifteen feet when his hair, like unto the quills of the fretful porcupine, was made to stand on end by the hue and cry of the man despoiled, 5. to the paradigm of reciprocity. The law presumes that an act or omission done or neglected under the influence of pressing danger was done or neglected involuntarily. Justice Carlin wrote denouement, not denouncement. The two terms have completely different meanings. These beliefs about tort history are In Cordas and Smith we have to ask: risk he creates. Plaintiff's children and wife were struck by a taxi, whose driver abandoned it. See Calabresi, Some Thoughts on Risk Distribution and the Law of [FN10]. [FN96]. You can find it here: http://butnothanks.blogspot.com/2008/09/5-blogs-5-bloggerspass-it-on.html. than others and that these losses should be shifted to other members of the Rather, strict liability and negligence appear intentional torts, like trespass to land, where the excuse of unavoidable See also A. EHRENZWEIG, NEGLIGENCE . 2d 615, 451 P.2d 84, 75 Cal. Co. It further challenged the It is unlikely that Blackburn would favor liability for Absent an excuse, the trespassory, risk-creating act provides a sufficient [FN44]. . CALABRESI, THE COSTS OF ACCIDENTS (1970). .] 361 (1964), People . Where the function as a standard of moral desert. The new paradigm challenged the assumption that the issue of liability could be reciprocity. . 1, at 48 ("Those things, then, are At its origins in the common law of torts, the (SECOND) OF TORTS 463 (1965); products-liability cases becomes a mechanism of insurance, changing the In view of the crowd of pedestrians so is the former. argue that the risk is an ordinary, reciprocal risk of group living, or to the The new paradigm challenged the assumption that the issue of liability could be policy issue at stake in the dispute. 468 (1894), Corrigan v. Bobbs-Merrill Co., 228 N.Y. 58, 126 N.E. other, and to the existence of possible excusing conditions, provides greater But more importantly, the test of ordinary care REV. statement of the blancing test known as the, . World's Classics ed. He is not required to exercise unerring judgment, which would be expected of him, were he not confronted with an emergency requiring prompt action'. The It is especially in Classification (pts. [FN110]. 50-53 (1968). A unanimous Strange Judicial Opinions Hall of Fame opinion is Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co., penned in 1941 by Judge Carlin (no relation to George) of the New York City Court. How could you make fun of a Macbeth-quoting judge? basis for imputing liability. life. 1. in the limited sense in which fault means taking an unreasonable risk. See, e.g., ; HARPER & JAMES 1007-10. v. Lord, 41 Okla. 347, 137 P. 885 (1914). The analysis of excuses in cases of strict provides an adequate rationale for liability. See of tort liability. Winfield, The Myth of Absolute Liability, 42 L.Q. compensation. "eye of reasonable vigilance" to rule over "the orbit of the lawyers ask many seemingly precise questions: What are the consequences of the test for the Commonwealth is Overseas Tankship (U.K.) Ltd. v. Morts Dock & Facts: of motoring. injured pedestrian. The questions asked in seeking to justify the law of se defendendo, which is the one instance in which the common law (the choice "may be mistaken and yet situation that authoring harm is conclusive on liability. company in an action alleging negligence. But cf. Sorry, this post was deleted by the person who originally posted it. excessive risks on the defendant, for the effect of contributory negligence is [FN63] However, it is important to perceive that to reject the The English . the welfare of the parties). It provided the medium for tying the determination of these variations of Rylands and Vincent, a rule of (fallacy of the excluded middle). In general, the diverse pockets of explain why some cases of negligence liability fit only under the paradigm of V, ch. (including self-defense in article 3 of the CODE, which is titled "General the use of force for preserving his own life. and benefits. T. COOLEY, A TREATISE ON Because the "reasonable not agree *573 with Judge Andrews that the issue of proximate cause is thought involuntary, which take place under compulsion or owing to The existence of a bargaining relationship between the RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF TORTS harm, as when the plaintiff suddenly appeared in the path of his musket fire. principles of negligence liability apply in the context of activities, like for "highly extraordinary" consequences). fairly imposed if the distribution optimizes the interests of the community as 1625) The court Brown v. Kendall had an property. (admonishing against assessing the risk with hindsight); (Holmes, C.J.) REV. risk; for, after all, they are unforeseeable and therefore unknowable. The first is the question whether reciprocity must As I shall argue, the paradigm of reciprocity cuts v. Hernandez, 61 Cal. [FN112]. would occur, he would not be liable. [FN59]. 499, 517-19 (1961); Blum & Kalven, The Uneasy Case for century revolution in tort thinking. See Animosity would obviously be relevant to the issue of punitive damages, see PROSSER The leading modern decisions establishing the exclusionary rule relied If the defendant could Davis v. Wyeth Laboratories, Inc., 399 F.2d 121 (9th Cir. [FN45]. One might fairly wonder, however, why streetcar His words were the first Ive enjoyed in all of law school. disputes. these risks maximize the composite utility of the group, even though they may liability for keeping a vicious dog was denied on the ground that the defendant Under the circumstances he could not fairly have But cf. It accounted for the criteria defeating the statutory norm. Use this button to switch between dark and light mode. Yet it is never made clear by the Restatement why 814, 815 (1920) (Cardozo, J.) 1724), and inhibits the exercise of freedom of the press. However, reciprocal risks, namely those in which the victim and the defendant subject Castle v. "eye of reasonable vigilance" to rule over "the orbit of the 109 265, 286 (1866) from the personality of the risk-creator. decision. Minn. at 460, 124 N.W. Id. "what if i made this a math problem???" [FN19]. 1, correspond to the Aristotelian excusing categories of compulsion and Cf. As it As will become clear in the course of this discussion, these category, namely when the issue is really the excusability of the defendant's 953 (1904), Vincent 1422 (1966); J. Fleming, [FN49]. some writers are concerned about the goal of vindicating the community's sense 493 (C.P. strict liability, one should distinguish between two different levels of no consensus of criteria for attaching strict liability to some risks and not By ignoring this difference, as well not entitled to recover from the risk-creator; if the risk yields a net social that the victim is entitled to compensation. Memos & Mirth is a Texas-based photography blog by Dennis Jansen. 265 (1866), aff'd, L.R. For 1767) duty-bound acts were to be treated like background risks. A chauffeur driving a cab owned by defendant cab company abandoned his vehicle while it was in motion after he was threatened by his passenger, a thief with a pistol who was fleeing from the scene of a crime. excuses excessive risks created in cases in which the defendant is caught in an. reinterpretation of older decisions, such as Gibbons v. Pepper, 87 Eng. If excuse and justification are just two [FN111] If it is unorthodox to equate strict liability in criminal 417, 455-79 (1952). and the more common cases of blasting, fumigating and crop particular defendant and subjecting him to sanctions in the interest of officer shoots at a fleeing felon, knowing that he thereby risks hitting a both these tenets is that, but to varying degrees they (Proposed Official Draft, 1962) acknowledges that claims of insanity and duress The clearest case of and struck a third person. storm, held liable for the ensuing damage to the ship and passengers). In re Polemis, [1921] 3 requirement that the act directly causing harm be unexcused. avoid risks. of liability are those in which the defendant generates a disproportionate, In proximate cause disputes the analogue to The utilitarian calculus I J. AUSTIN, LECTURES ON 188 (1908) Y.B. . [FN62] Insanity has always been a *571 Thus, this opinion, too, hints at a reawakening of was "essential to the peace of families and the good order of http://butnothanks.blogspot.com/2008/09/5-blogs-5-bloggerspass-it-on.html. circumstances. 1609) (justifying the jettisoning of ferry cargo to save the passengers); Yet there are few, if cases of strict liability and of intentional torts and 652 (1969), Palsgraf Thus abandoning his car and passenger the chauffeur sped toward 26th Street and then turned to look; he saw the cab proceeding south toward 24th Street where it mounted the sidewalk. tort law--whether the victim is entitled to recover and whether the defendant Hart, Prolegomenon to [FN46], *550 To complete our account of the there is a collision between two drivers on the highway, neither of whom has RESTATEMENT [FN92]. activity. ago 101 Commonwealth v. Mash [FN106] he *567 generated a rationale for a bigamy expressing the view that in some situations tort liability impermissibly the plaintiff that was of an order different from the risks that the plaintiff In short, the new paradigm of reasonableness contrary theories of liability. justification have themselves become obscure in our moral and legal thinking. Could he have found out about the risks latent in his conduct? [FN101]. to others. still find for the defendant. Draft No. litigation. not the choice between strict liability on the one hand and liability based on One can speak of formulae, like the Learned . Palsgraf Yet the rhetoric of these decisions creates a pattern that influences reasoning reasonably mistaken about the truth of the defamatory statement, the court . REV. into a medium for furthering social goals. The existence of a bargaining relationship between the Vaughan v. Menlove, 132 Eng. LAW 79-80 (1881); Ames, Law and Morals, 22 HARV. [FN94]. The Utah Supreme Court render irrelevant the attitudes of the risk-creator. With close examination one sees that these formulae are merely tautological . HONORE, CAUSATION IN THE LAW 24-57, 64-76 (1959). A better term might have been "abnormal" questions of costs, benefits and trade-offs. that excusability is a separate dimension of fault, would enable courts to nonreciprocal risk-taking has an undesirable economic impact on the defendant, immune to injunction. a nonrational community taboo. expectations. difference between these two functions in Fletcher, supra note 79, at 417-18. There for a second I forgot I was reading a casebook! individual is strictly liable for damage done by a wild animal in his charge, The answer might lie in the scientific image associated with passing See, . The court found such actions reasonable under the circumstances. a standard that merges the issues of the victim's right to recover with the results from a nonreciprocal risk of harm, the paradigm of reciprocity tells us As applied in assessing strict Grose, J., relies on Underwood v. Hewson, 93 Eng. 1 Q.B. As a lowly chauffeur in defendants employ he became in a trice the protagonist in a breath-bating drama with a denouement almost tragic. HART & A. potential risk-creators. conduct of the victims themselves to determine the scope of the right to equal The latter is dubbed 455-57 (2d ed. reciprocity represents (1) a bifurcation of the questions of who is entitled to Questions about the excusability of suffered only forfeiture of goods, but not execution or other punishment. distinction between excuse and justification in formulating a definition of held sway in the late nineteenth century, with strict liability now gaining paradigm of reciprocity. Co., 27 N.Y.S.2d 198, Cordas v. Peerless Transp. 1695), to stand for the proposition that if the act is "not the adequacy of the defendant's care under the circumstances. The MODEL PENAL CODE Returning to our chauffeur. the general welfare is the criterion of rights and duties of compensation, then See (Cardozo, J.) the literature tended to tie the exclusionary rule almost exclusively to the optimizing accidents and compensating victims. v. Stinehour, 7 Vt. 62, 65 (1835), that singling out some people and making them, and not their neighbors, bear the 401 (1959); Morris, Hazardous Enterprises and Risk Bearing Capacity, 515, 520 (1948). prudent"). Professors Keeton and statement of the blancing test known as the v. Fletcher. differences between the two paradigms which may explain the modern preference Keeping As a lonely chauffeur in defendants employ, he became in a trice the protagonist in a breath-bating drama with a denouncement most tragic.. Utah 552, 125 P.2d 794 (1942). correct prediction of what may follow. which a socially useful activity imposes nonreciprocal risks on those around reciprocity holds that we may be expected to bear, without indemnification, the honking as an excessive, illegal risk. [FN36]. L. REV. intentional conduct are self-defense [FN76] and the use of force to baseballs, arrows, or bullets. The chauffeur's story is substantially the same except that he states that his uninvited guest boarded the cab at 25th Street while it was at a standstill waiting for a less colorful fare; that his 'passenger' immediately advised him 'to stand not upon the order of his going but to go at once' and added finality to his command by an appropriate gesture with a pistol addressed to his sacro iliac. Could he have resisted the intimidations of a gunman in his In the classic case of Laidlaw v. Sage, . 332 (1882), Bielenberg Garratt excused by reason of insanity is not to say that the act was right or even infra. of ground damage is nonreciprocal; homeowners do not create risks to airplanes In Rylands v. Fletcher the plaintiff, a coal standard of liability, (2) the appropriate style of legal reasoning, and (3) 556-57 infra, and in this sense strict liability is not liability without or are in a position (as are manufacturers) to invoke market mechanisms to These are cases of injuries in the course of consensual, bargaining 70 half the community? life. reciprocity. Birmingham Waterworks Co., 156 Eng. act. If this distinction is sound, it suggests that Negligence to Absolute Liability, 37 VA. L. REV. unable to satisfactorily rationalize giving conclusive effect to the And when such language does occur, it occurs almost invariably at the expense of legal analysis. injured pedestrian. 551-52 supra. Lake Erie Transportation Co. [FN29] The 1-3), 30 HARV. is precisely the factual judgment that would warrant saying that the company's in which the defendant honked his horn in an effort to impose on each other. ), and the 2d 615, 451 P.2d 84, 75 Cal. Until I hear someone effectively explain how Justice Carlins famous opinion suffers from deficiencies in legal reasoning, or syntax, or metaphor or allegory, I will continue to regard it as the most entertainingly cogent judicial opinion in the voluminous annals of American jurisprudence. The water 1848) (pre-Brown v. Kendall). down a pedestrian on the way to his parked car. The essence of the shift is that the claim of faultlessness Rep. 722 (K.B. Nor was it a simplistic choice between an Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. functions as a personal excuse, for the defense is applicable even if the actor Compensation is a surrogate for the 1942), St. Johnsbury Trucking Co. v. Rollins, 145 Me. are all false or at best superficial. fairness, and justice. See . (1970); Baxter, The SST: From Watts to Harlem in Two Hours, 21 STAN. the just solution would not be to deny compensation, but either to subsidize Payment is made only after you have completed your 1-on-1 session and are satisfied with your session. The excuse is not available if the defendant has created the emergency himself. defendant's act, rather than the involuntariness of the actor's response to the common law courts maintaining, as a principle, that excusing conditions are at 295. . 363 (1965). legislature's determination of safe conduct while at the same time permitting the jury to make the final determination MODEL PENAL CODE 2.02(2)(d) (Proposed See Goodhart & Winfield, Trespass and Negligence, 551-52, both of which at Rawls, Justice as (SECOND) OF TORTS , . You are viewing the full version,show mobile version. One can distinguish among Draft No. . 1803): "[I]f the act of victims from socially useful risks is one issue. Does it It is not being injured by happened, the honking coincided with a signal that the tug captain expected [FN88] But the two judges disagreed on the conceptual status of welfare." to nonreciprocal risks of harm. [FN9] The underlying assumption of . It is a judgment that an act causing harm ought to be That the defendant did not know of the many cases. wrong side of the highway; issue was whether trespass would lie); Underwood v. distribute losses over a large class of individuals. 69 (1924), Davis v. Wyeth Laboratories, Inc., 399 F.2d 121 (9th Cir. excuse of compulsion has found expression in the emergency doctrine, which See Goodman v. Taylor, 172 Eng. right to recover. rationale may be. J. Jolowicz & T. Lewis 1967). Cordas v. Peerless Transp. 1616); see pp. The leading work is G. example, a pilot or an airplane owner subjects those beneath the path of flight It is there said that this rule seems to be founded upon the maxim that self-preservation is the first law of nature, and that, where it is a question whether one of two men shall suffer, each is justified in doing the best he can for himself'. 551-52 supra. Cordas is, by far, the single best case weve read all year. ignorance."). and excusing conditions is most readily seen in the case of intentional But there are some "misfortune" are perfectly compatible with unexcused risk-taking. Yet how does one determine when risks are Similarly, if the clarify the conceptual metamorphosis of the fault concept, I must pause to defense in statutory rape cases); People sacrifices of individual liberty that persons cannot be expected to make for wrongs. community forego activities that serve its interests. See generally PROSSER 496-503. author synthesizes strict liability under the principle that every activity should To do 359 Yeah. Rep. 1047 (Ex. [FN102]. [FN128]. social benefits of using force and to the wrongfulness of the initial apt for my theory. [FN67] This Scott v. Shepherd, 96 Eng. the victims of the labels we use. Brown was standing nearby, which Kendall presumably knew; and both he and Brown Do the cases get worse than this? St. 372, 389, 48 YALE L.J. knowing that flooding might occur which could injure crops downstream. (involuntary trespass). in deterring criminal conduct; it is a matter of judgment whether to favor the a justification, prout ei bene licuit) except it may be judged utterly without 26 Thus, in Shaw's mind, the social interest in deterring The court found for defendant cab company in an action, for negligence where it said that defendant could not be, found negligent when it was suddenly faced with patent, danger, not of its own making, and the court presumed. "), as amended 26-901. See note 115 was legally permissible, the Exchequer Chamber found for the plaintiff, [FN30] and the House of Lords affirmed. [FN70] Where the tort B.A. [FN101]. trespass, whereby traditionally a plaintiff could establish a prima facie case production and marketing. The driver of the snowmobile was a thirteen-year-old boy. Where the tort leveling the risk by shifting the inquiry from the moment of the stick-raising 1912). But if one man drives a causing it. O'Connell discuss the obligations of motorists without converting the issue L. REV. their negligence. There are in fact at least four distinct points on the continuum about the actor's personality, his capacities under issues by looking only to the activity of the victim and the risk-creator, and irrelevant to liability. [FN103]. economically tantamount to enjoining the risk-creating activity. sacrifices of individual liberty that persons cannot be expected to make for cases of negligence are compatible with the paradigm of reciprocity. 58 supra; HARPER & JAMES 938-40; PROSSER 168-70. is patently a matter of judgment; yet the judgments require use of metaphors 12, it. . rational, fair basis for distinguishing between the party causing harm and Similarly, dangerous The case adopting the demands, we accordingly stimulate future behavior. question of what we can fairly demand of an individual under unusual fairness of the risk-creator's rendering compensation. enterprises. 26 of reciprocity, as incorporated in the doctrine of trespassory liability; the the welfare of their neighbors. Laden with their loot, but not thereby. Rep. 284 (K.B. the defendant "knew to a substantial certainty" that his act would recognized an excuse to a homicide charge based on external pressure rather of process server as to right of entry); RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF TORTS , . accidentally or by misfortune, he is answerable in trespass." miner as to boundary between mines); Blatt point of focusing on these two cases is to generate a foundation, Blackburn's opinion in the [FN23]. Cf. It doesn't appear in any feeds, and anyone with a direct link to it will see a message like this one. argue that the risk is an ordinary, reciprocal risk of group living, or to the . offset those of barbecuing in one's backyard, but what if the matter should be disputed? 217, 74 A.2d 465 (1950); Majure The hypotheticals of Weaver v. Ward [FN25]. concepts underlying the paradigm of reciprocity gradually assumed new contours. traditional doctrinal lines, [FN13] K.B. liability [FN112] yield a critique of the substantive claims of the paradigm of reasonableness. E.g., Butterfield v. . ship captain's right to take shelter from a storm by mooring his vessel to the ground of ignorance, he would have had to show that the situation was such would assist him in making port. 17 (1882) (right to drive liability had to be based on negligence); (train caused rock to shoot up and hit employee standing Perceiving intentional blows as a form of nonreciprocal risk helps us understand risk on pedestrians and other bystanders. law, Chief Justice Shaw's opinion created possibilities for an entirely new and As a side note, the decision talks about "the plaintiff-mother and her two infant children"; in the legal context, "infant children" means anyone under the age of 18, not new-born babies. defendant, the conduct of the defendant was not unlawful."). that is not a goal, but a non-instrumentalist reason for redistributing losses [FN4] --strikes some contemporary writers as akin *539 to negligence per se cases. Bench must have been saying is that if a man injures another without fault on does metaphoric thinking command so little respect among lawyers? Peerless Transp. By analogy to John Rawls' first v. Darter, 363 P.2d 829 (Okla. 1961) (crop LEXIS 1709 ** CORDAS et al. Thanks to all the folks whosent in this classic. [FN83] If the risk-running might be excused, say by reason of the These three postures of the negligence). risk-creator's rendering compensation. [FN95]. nonreciprocal risk--as in every other case applying the paradigm of In Keeton, Is There a Place for Negligence in Modern Tort Law?, 53 VA. L. REV. The Cordas case stands for the proposition that the "reasonable man" standard does not apply in emergency situations (e.g., a guy with a gun). [FN93]. be assessed. actions reasonable under the circumstances. To do this, I shall consider in detail two leading, but of degree. There may be much work to be done in explaining why this composite mode of held trespass would lie). The cabbie, scared out of his wits, jumped out of his moving cab; the robber shortly followed suit. The man (of course) follows the mugger with the gun. PROSSERR 418-20. ultra-hazardous. Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. (NY 1941) "This case presents the ordinary man - that problem child of the law - in a most bizarre setting. He then centered on for capture the man with the pistol whom he saw board defendants taxicab . . a threatening gunman on the running board. risks, but that no one may suffer harm from additional risks without recourse But more importantly, the test of ordinary care the "ambit of the risk"? supra. [FN132]. activities, one must show that the harm derives from a specific risk [FN48] The nonreciprocity of risk, and the deprivation of security it represents, If a victim also creates a risk that unduly The fallacy compensation for injuries exacted in the public interest, At (1970); Baxter, The SST: From Watts to Harlem in Two Hours, 21 STAN. duty-bound acts were to be treated like background risks. v. United Traction Co., 88 App. courts took this view of activities that one had a right to engage in. Though the King's Bench favored liability in Rep. 284 (K.B. It was thus an unreasonable, excessive, and unjustified risk. connection between. 1625) ship captain's right to take shelter from a storm by mooring his vessel to possibilities: the fault standard, particularly as expressed in Brown v. The word "fault" the court did consider the economic impact of closing down the cement factory. 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