Managers and the Legal Environment 7th Edition by David Madsen, Constance Bagley

Exercise 10

Ordinarily, a harm must have already occurred or be imminent for a court to hear a case. Baur could not demonstrate such an injury or the immediacy of an injury to him. Nonetheless, the court permitted his case to proceed. Why did the court not require Baur to demonstrate that he had contracted BSE or had almost eaten a product infected with it?