A Superseding Cause Is an Intervening Event That Imposes Liability

question 8

True/False

A superseding cause is an intervening event that imposes liability on a defendant for injuries caused by the intervening event.

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Definitions:

Obedience Studies

Psychological research investigating how individuals comply with authority, notably exemplified by Stanley Milgram's experiments in the 1960s.

Refuse To Participate

The act of declining to take part in an activity, study, or experiment.

Risky Shift

The phenomenon where a group collectively decides on a course of action that is more extreme than they would have decided individually.

Group Polarization

The tendency for a group to make decisions that are more extreme than the initial inclination of its members following group discussion.