Round 6: Tossup 12

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

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