Packet 6: Tossup 12

A court in this state granted a “saucy intruder” property rights over a fox that another hunter was (15[1])pursuing (15[1])in the seminal case Pierson v. Post. (15[1])A shipwreck in this state caused by (15[1])Carroll Towing led a judge from it to create a namesake “Formula” (15[1])to evaluate (15[1])negligence. (15[3])A (15[1])judge from this state ruled that a woman could not recover (-5[1])from a scale falling on her head after a train (15[1])ran (15[1])over (15[1])a stick (15[2])of dynamite (15[1])due to “proximate cause” in the (*) Palsgraf case. (10[1]-5[1])A judge from this home (10[1])state of Learned (-5[1])Hand (10[1]-5[1])joined Brandeis (10[3])and Stone (10[1])to form the “Three Musketeers.” A law from this home state of Benjamin Cardozo granted a monopoly to Robert (10[1])Fulton’s (10[1])steamships (10[1]-5[1])before being (10[2])invalidated in Gibbons v. Ogden. (-5[2])For 10 points, (-5[1])what state (-5[1])was sued in the case that began the “Lochner Era?” (10[1])■END■ (10[8]0[1])

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