Courts held developers liable for landslides, rejecting acts-of-God defenses

Evidence

In a series of decisions in cases prompted by the Portuguese Bend disaster, for example, the courts ultimately held that the landslide was not an act of God: Instead, it was the result of human negligence. … Accordingly, the profession needed to give more thought to the causes of landslides. What could be done to prevent costly and deadly disasters? — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 677

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Repeated landslide disasters forced successive waves of Los Angeles grading regulation — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 672; Landslides resulted from specific preventable builder choices, not natural accidents — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 678

Broader Connections

• Landslides resulted from specific preventable builder choices, not natural accidents #corroborates (0.92) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 678