i m sorry. i got somebody talking to me in my ear and i have no idea who it is. doug, let me go to you. proximate cause is something that plaintiffs have to prove. they have to prove a connection between an injury and negligence. absolutely and of course you re raising a distinction between the old, but for causation, which is, you know, but for being there this wouldn t have happened but you have to show it was the approximate last link that caused it. to pile on even further on the plaintiff s saga here, you had 5500 people on the reagan, gregg, which i found to be somewhat staggering when i read that. admittedly the distinction these eight were up more toward the surface, but again, i think they have a very tough case. gregg: yeah. greg, in the end what is going to happen with this thing? i think it may get thrown out, frankly. i think doug is absolutely right. they have an extremely tough
with yemen, iraq and serbia? i ll explain. but first, here s my take. mitt romney has picked a bad time to launch an attack on barack obama s foreign policy. as he was speaking to the annual gathering of the veterans of foreign wars this week, charging obama with weakness, betrayal and mendacity, nbc news and the wall street journal released a new poll. it turns out on handling foreign policy, americans prefer obama to romney by a whopping 15 points. romney s principal charge against obama is that he has angered america s allies and emboldened its enemies. shabby treatment of one of our finest friends. well, it turns out again that there s some recently released data that contradicts the claim. . the pew foundation released one of its global surveys in june. soliciting opinions from several countries around the world. when asked if they have some or a lot of trust in president obama, the numbers are overwhelmingly positive across most of the world. in britain, for exa
now deceased, but her estate is being sued. and now charla nash, the victim in all of this, is also trying to add the state of connecticut. kimberly, how can she get there? because normality normally the state has southern immunity. yes, she has to appeal to the claims commission to say please allow me to bring this lawsuit because this is a just and equitable suit, and she can prove, in fact, proximate cause, that they had a duty to protect, that there was a failure with respect to duty to protect her megyn: but how? those are all generalities. what s her argument in this case? that they knew, in fact, this chimp pose add substantial risk, there s a history of previous attacks. she herself was attacked, obviously, in 2009. there was an attack where the chimp got loose in 2003, so they were aware of the fact that this was a large, substantial animal, 200-pound, male chimpanzee, and, there was, there s internal
that what they did is a direct reason why this young man took his own life, that s hard to prove? well that s what lawyers call proximate cause. in a criminal case, i don t have to prove that. in new jersey to stream somebody involved in an intimate act like this over the internet is a crime. you don t have to prove that proximate cause how much? five years they would face. that would be the maximum? that would be the maximum. first offenders, probably they re not looking at that. in terms of a civil case for damages for the death, you might be able to prove this was intentional terms of death. and you may have a chance for recovery in this case. the thing about this, that gets me, i see it in my office with people coming in with cases that have been defamed on the internet. the internet has given people a tool. and they re using this tool to