Exam 7: Intentional Torts

The Hometown News snapped a picture of Tom, a local teenager, as he was sleeping under a tree in the park on a warm spring day. If they print the picture on the front page of the paper:

Consent, given by a person with capacity, negates the wrongfulness of an act.

Incompetents and persons under the age of 18 cannot be held liable for their intentional torts.

Defenses to intentional torts include:

Tim and Steve are roughhousing in Tim's parents' front yard when Steve intentionally pushes Tim onto the neighbor's property. In this case:

Identify the elements of a tort and the objectives of tort law.

One of the principal objectives of tort law is to prevent future harms and losses.

For purposes of intentional torts, a person can have the intent to cause harm if the harm is substantially certain to occur even if he or she doesn't desire that such harm occur.

Les, a teenager, has the permission of Harold to walk across his yard on the way to school. If Les brings twenty of his friends across the yard, and they stop to play ball:

Acting with reckless disregard for the falsity of the matter, Anita included Joe's name and photograph in a list of the FBI's top ten criminals. Joe has never been convicted of a crime and is horrified by the thought of being considered a criminal. This: