523: Listen and Learn -- Negligence: Factual Causation

The Law School Toolbox Podcast: Tools for Law Students from 1L to the Bar Exam, and Beyond

Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! In today's episode, we're focusing on one of the most highly-tested topics on law school exams: Negligence. In particular, we're talking about the different ways in which factual causation can be demonstrated.

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://lawschooltoolbox.com/law-school-toolbox-podcast-substantive-law-topics/#listen-learn)
• California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, February 2019 (https://makethisyourlasttime.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Feb-2019-Essays.pdf)
• California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, July 2017 (https://makethisyourlasttime.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/July-2017-Essays.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 382: Listen and Learn – Negligence: Proximate Cause (https://lawschooltoolbox.com/podcast-episode-382-listen-and-learn-negligence-proximate-cause/)

Download the Transcript (https://lawschooltoolbox.com/episode-523-listen-and-learn-negligence-factual-causation/)

If you enjoy the podcast, we'd love a nice review and/or rating on Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/law-school-toolbox-podcast/id1027603976) or your favorite listening app. And feel free to reach out to us directly. You can always reach us via the contact form on the Law School Toolbox website (http://lawschooltoolbox.com/contact). If you're concerned about the bar exam, check out our sister site, the Bar Exam Toolbox (http://barexamtoolbox.com/). You can also sign up for our weekly podcast newsletter (https://lawschooltoolbox.com/get-law-school-podcast-updates/) to make sure you never miss an episode!

Thanks for listening!

Alison & Lee