Judges Use Proximate Cause to Limit the Scope of a Defendant's

question 26

True/False

Judges use proximate cause to limit the scope of a defendant's liability to a subset of the total number of potential plaintiffs that might have been harmed by the defendant's negligence.

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Definitions:

Production Process

The series of steps and activities involved in transforming raw materials into finished goods or services.

MRTS

The Marginal Rate of Technical Substitution; the rate at which a firm can substitute one input for another while keeping the level of output constant.

Marginal Productivity

Marginal productivity refers to the additional output produced as a result of adding one more unit of a specific input, keeping all other inputs constant.

Fixed-Proportion

A production scenario where the input proportions cannot be changed; each unit of output requires the same ratio of inputs.