Fools Abound in Torts

“Chief Justice Rugg’s famous distinctions among negligence, gross negligence and recklessness as being distinctions among a fool, a damned fool, and a God-damned fool.”

(Harvard Law Record, April 16, 1959.)

h/t Dennis Jansen at No. 634

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