causal nexus

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“He seems to have established a sufficient causal nexus between Councilperson Wade and the alleged constitutional injury of his arrest,” the court said in an unsigned opinion in February.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2017

“Even if pesticide residues are found, a causal nexus cannot be drawn,” Félix Carvalho, a toxicologist at the University of Porto, in Portugal, says.

From Slate • Jun. 10, 2016

It shall be sufficient if there is a probable causal nexus between death and persecution.

From Time Magazine Archive

The scientific and practical problem is as to whether there exists an actual causal nexus.

From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf

If this could be proved, then there would seem to be a causal nexus, a relation of cause and effect between the hallucination and the coincident crisis.

From The Making of Religion by Lang, Andrew