OPINION
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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