Phan Son Van v. Adolfo Peña

Summary

The Texas Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals and affirmed the trial court's grant of summary judgment to Phan Son Van, holding that the sale of alcohol to underage gang members was a superseding cause of the victims' murders. The Court ruled that the foreseeability element of proximate cause can be decided as a matter of law when the defendant proves the intervening criminal act was not foreseeable.