Proximate Cause

What is Proximate Cause?

1.

n. a phrase used by lawyer to make it seem as if somebody didn't do something wrong when they really did.

Lawyer: Yes, your Honor, my clients may have created fake financial records for Enron, but they were not a proximate cause of harm to Enron shareholders because Enron was going to implode anyways.

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1.

n. a phrase used by lawyer to make it seem as if somebody didn't do something wrong when they really did.

Lawyer: Yes, your Honor, my clients may have created fake financial records for Enron, but they were not a proximate cause of harm to Enron shareholders because Enron was going to implode anyways.

See bullshit, lawyers, law, enron

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