01:790:340 Study Guide - California Penal Code, Appellate Jurisdiction, Insanity Defense
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You are responsible for the following theories and cases for the final exam: Foresee-ability: prevent defendant from doing harm that is foreseeable. If you injure someone you should pay their damages. Economic efficiency measure: legal actions should leave no one better off at another person"s expense. Derdiarian got to work and parked his car and was weary about its location as well as the location of the equipment he would be working on. He was told to leave it where it was, as he was working dickens had a seizure and drove off the road into the construction area, derdiarian was horribly injured. Question is was the negligence because of dickens or felix failing to secure the worksite. Court says felix is responsible for derdirians injuries due to the instructions to park on the roadside of gas line because he should have foreseen that something bad would happen.