Episode description
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! In today's episode, we're focusing on one of the most highly-tested topics on the bar exam: Negligence. In particular, we're talking about the different ways in which factual causation can be proved.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Review of the elements of negligence
- What is factual causation and the five tests that are used to prove it
- Analyzing two hypos from previous California bar exams
Resources:
- "Listen and Learn" series (https://barexamtoolbox.com/bar-exam-toolbox-podcast-archive-by-topic/bar-exam-toolbox-podcast-explaining-individual-mee-and-california-bar-essay-questions/#listen-learn)
- California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, February 2019 (https://www.calbar.ca.gov/Portals/0/documents/admissions/Examinations/Feb2019_CBX_SelectedAnswers.EssayQuestions_R.pdf)
- California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, July 2017 (https://www.calbar.ca.gov/Portals/0/documents/admissions/Examinations/Jul2017_CBXSelectedAnswers_EssayQuestions1-5.pdf)
- Summers v. Tice (https://casetext.com/case/summers-v-tice)
- Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories (https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/display/GNME/Sindell+v.+Abbott+Laboratories)
- Podcast Episode 186: Listen and Learn – Negligence: Proximate Cause (https://barexamtoolbox.com/podcast-episode-186-listen-and-learn-negligence-proximate-cause/)
Download the Transcript
(https://barexamtoolbox.com/episode-247-listen-and-learn-negligence-factual-causation/)
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Alison & Lee