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UNIV. OF TEX. SOUTHWESTERN MED. v. NASSAR

No. 12-484.

133 S.Ct. 2517 (2013)

186 L.Ed.2d 503

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER, Petitioner v. Naiel NASSAR.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 24, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daiyl L. Joseffer, Washington, DC, for Petitioner.

Brian P. Lauten, Dallas, TX, for Respondent.

Melissa Arbus Sherry, for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the respondent.

Greg Abbott, Attorney General of Texas, Daniel T. Hodge, First Assistant Attorney General, David C. Mattax, Deputy Attorney General for Defense Litigation James "Beau" Eccles, Division Chief — General Litigation, Office of the Attorney General, Daryl L. Joseffer, Counsel of Record, Carolyn M. Sweeney, King & Spalding LLP, Washington, DC, Michael W. Johnston, Merritt E. McAlister, King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, GA, Lars Hagen, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Austin, TX, Myrna Salinas Baumann, King & Spalding LLP, Austin, TX, for Petitioner.

Michael T. Kirkpatrick, Allison M. Zieve, Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, DC, Charla Aldous, Brent Walker, Aldous Law Firm, Dallas, TX, Brian P. Lauten, Counsel of Record, Sawicki & Lauten, LLP, Dallas, TX, for Respondent.

Justice KENNEDY delivered the opinion of the Court.

When the law grants persons the right to compensation for injury from wrongful conduct, there must be some demonstrated connection, some link, between the injury sustained and the wrong alleged. The requisite relation between prohibited conduct and compensable injury is governed by the principles of causation, a subject most often arising in elaborating the law of torts. This case requires the Court to define those...

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