CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 434
Alternative Causation
Y ou may decide that more than one of the defendants was negligent, but
that the negligence of only one of them could have actually caused [name
of plaintiff]’s harm. If you cannot decide which defendant caused [name
of plaintiff]’s harm, you must decide that each defendant is responsible
for the harm.
However, if a defendant proves that [he/she/ nonbinary pronoun/it] did not
cause [name of plaintiff]’s harm, then you must conclude that defendant
is not responsible.
New September 2003; Revised November 2019
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2025
- Content hash
48ecaf46c7282a3e454d4f8d1dd866d43b691b368fce0bafbc533376c6924c7e
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