Exam 5: Torts,cyber Torts,and Strict Liabiity

Sam,an engineer,supervises the construction of a new bridge.When the bridge collapses due to faulty construction,Sam is sued by those injured in the collapse.As a professional,Sam is held to the same standard of care as

Bella owns a farm in Colorado.Doyle drives his sport utility vehicle off a highway and onto Bella's land.Doyle commits trespass if he

Cook's Pantry Appliances,a retail store,must use reasonable care on its premises to warn its patrons of

Fraud occurs only when there is reliance on a statement of opinion.

Bette backs out of City Parking Garage,colliding with Dill's car.Dill may recover $7,500 to cover the cost of the repairs if Bette failed to act as

Dian,a clerk at an Entertainment Unlimited store,takes a DVD player from the store without permission.Dian is liable for

Publishing false information about another's product is conversion.

The use by one person of another paerson's likelness without permission and for the benefit of the user constitutes the tort of appropriation.

If an actor's conduct creates no risk,there is no negligence.

Self-defense is a defense to negligence.

Harm must be foreseeable to be considered the proximate cause of an injury in negligence.

George has a badly infected right foot.Herb,George's physician,prescribes amputation.George agrees.During the operation,Herb amputates the left foot.In George's suit against Herb,George's best theory for recovery is

Oakley posts a defamatory remark about Pierre in "Roominate," an online social network maintained by SocNet,Inc.,an Internet service provider.Most likely to be held liable for the remark is

A state statute requires machinery in industrial plants to include automatic shut-off switches accessible to each employee working on the machine.Steel Company's (SC's)equipment does not have the switches.Trudy,an SC employee,suffers an injury that an accessible shut-off switch would have prevented.Trudy's best theory for recovery against SC is

A party cannot recover damages for severe emotional distress absent a showing of physical injury.

As a joke,Jem takes Kyla's business law textbook and hides it so that Kyla cannot find it during the week before the exam.Jem may have committed

Clyde enters Desert Decathlon,an athletic competition in which Clyde has often competed.Regarding the risk of injury,Clyde assumes the risks

Dru is an Excel Company employee.He says that Fiona,Excel's office manager,is stealing from their employer.The statement-which is false-is defamatory

An assumption of risk defense does not require that a risk be voluntarily assumed.

Nico is a passenger in a car driven by Owen,whose negligence causes an accident,injuring himself.Nico,uninjured,accompanies Owen to Parkside Hospital in an ambulance.The ambulance is hit by a car driven by Quin,injuring Nico.Nico files a suit against Owen,whose best defense is