Exam 6: Elements of Torts

The tort involving spoken defamatory communication is:

In Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad, where Palsgraf was hit by machinery that fell when an explosion occurred at a train station, and she sued the railroad for negligence, the New York high court held that the railroad:

Joe hands Mary a note he wrote that calls her terrible names, accuses her of horrible personal acts, and all sorts of other nonsense. Mary can bring a successful suit for:

In an assault or battery case a privilege can:

The intentional detention of a person may be the tort of:

In Lawler v. Montblanc North America, where Lawler, a store manager, was fired after telling her employer that she could not work more than 20 hours a week due to a medical condition, she sued for emotional distress and the appeals court held that:

Waivers of liability or exculpatory clauses:

The law permits certain defensive actions to be taken without incurring tort liability. Courts would be unlikely to allow which defensive actions?

In Chambers v. Travelers Companies, where Chambers sued for defamation after she was fired for her behavior, which included failure to reveal certain information about a business trip, but the district court held for Travelers, the appeals court found that:

A man was injured while riding a mechanical bull owned by an independent contractor at a state fair. He paid to ride the bull and signed a form that he understood the risk of injury. After he was injured, he sued the fair that provided the ride for negligence. You would expect the court held that:

In case of a tort claim of emotional distress, the plaintiff could:

A group of workers applied for work at a company looking to hire workers. They were locked in an enclosure and the police were called to report trespassing. The workers could sue for false imprisonment as they had good reason to be on company property.

In Geczi v. Lifetime Fitness, where Geczi suffered an injury when a treadmill at Lifetime malfunctioned but a jury held Lifetime not to be negligent, the appeals court held that Lifetime was not liable because Geczi.

Driving down the street you stupidly run a red light and hit a car legally going through a green light. You knock that car into a parked car, which knocks a loaded gun out of the parked car that falls on the street and fires a bullet that hits a person walking on the sidewalk. That person sues you in tort for damages. They will probably:

The right to privacy is:

You look at a box of cereal in the grocery store and, to your surprise, see your photo on it. You may probably sue for the tort of:

If you hack into your neighbor's computer, you may have committed the tort of invasion of privacy.

Defenses to intentional torts are:

If a person was playing a trick that went very wrong, there could not be an intentional tort, because no injury was anticipated.

You run towards someone screaming and swinging a stick. You were only kidding, but the person you were running at thought you were serious. You might be sued for the tort of: