COUNTY OF KERN v. JADWIN

No. B227276.

197 Cal.App.4th 65 (2011)

127 Cal. Rptr. 3d 837

COUNTY OF KERN, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. DAVID F. JADWIN, Defendant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Six.

July 5, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of Mark A. Wasser and Mark A. Wasser for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Law Offices of Eugene D. Lee, Eugene D. Lee ; Ferguson, Case, Orr, Paterson, Wendy C. Lascher and John A. Hribar for Defendant and Respondent.


OPINION

YEGAN, J.

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc is a Latin phrase "... used in logic to describe the fallacy of thinking that a happening which follows another must be its result ...." (Webster's New World Dict. (2d College ed. 1989) p. 1113, col. 1.) In other words, the propinquity of two events does not necessarily establish cause and effect. The key word here is "necessarily." County of Kern (County) argues that its filing of a False...

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