"The decision to finally make an official police complaint about a sex offence wasn't so much a 'lightbulb moment' as the gradual knocking away at a tall wall with a small mallet, brick by brick," writes Bri Lee, whose memoir, Eggshell Skull, recounts her journey through the Australian justice system.
Now, #MeToo has happened, Tracey Spicer's taken thousands of misconduct disclosures, workplaces are mobilising for misconduct policy, Bri Lee's excellent expose of the justice system Eggshell Skull has become a bestseller, accusations are unfolding, the anger at misconduct cannot be placated by the old mea culpas and excuses - and the appetite for change is ravenous.
You can never forget the sight of them those first few days, intubated under glass, veined eggshell skulls and pink writhing limbs-the image stays with you even as they grow, reminding you of just how fragile these creatures are, how flimsy your own defenses.
Proximate cause comes up when fortuity is at work, and the cases we review today seek patterns in the spectrum from Vosburg's "eggshell plaintiff" rule to the no-liability outcome of the boulder hypothetical.
The second case, epitomized by the "thin skull" or "eggshell plaintiff" hypothetical, involves limited or absent foreseeability of extent of damages.
That's when the monkey will come back to claim his skull, and animals will rule on this planet.
2B Shiny Normal Eggshell.
He crouched at the base of the pole and picked up a chalk-white object, like a crushed eggshell, from the ground: an indigestible gopher skull.
The rules for striking an opponent's skull repeatedly with your fist have not changed for decades.
To rule out malformations, radiological examination of the skull was performed on both patients with CT and MRT scans.
