Exam 12: Torts and Cyber Torts

Perpetrator is the term for a person who commits a tort.

Taylor slips and falls in Urban Mall and is injured.She files a suit against the mall for $500,000.Under a "pure" comparative negligence rule,Taylor could recover damages

Bargain Bytes Computers,a computer store,takes unethical steps to divert the customers of Cyber World,an adjacent competing store.Bargain Bytes may be liable for

Superior Health Club's marketing strategies entice many of Tone-Up Exercise Club's members to change clubs.After less than a year in business,Superior surpasses Tone-Up in numbers of members.Superior is liable for

Oak Valley Mall contains two video game stores,Pirates Pick and Game Quest.Pirates's manager Ryan stands in the mall near Game Quest's entrance to divert customers to his store.Game Quest's manager Sara asks Ryan to leave.He refuses.Ryan has committed

Negligence per se may occur on the violation of a statute.

A person may not be liable for a defamatory statement if he or she enjoys a privilege.

Hilliard,a clerk at a Games Unlimited store,takes a video game player from the store without permission.Hilliard is liable for

Only a foreseeable intervening event can break the connection between a wrongful act and an injury to another.

Teresa is a celebrity.Without her permission,Sinclair Enterprises includes in an ad an image that resembles her.Sinclair does not use Teresa's name or actual likeness.This is most likely

Joe sees Karo floundering in Lake Rough Waters.Joe is liable on the ground of negligence

Repeated annoyances coupled with threats are sufficient to recover for the infliction of emotional distress.

Under the theory of negligence,a breach of the duty of care requires a careless act.

Stanford Engineering,Inc. ,and Cornell Code Corporation market competitive software products.Stanford launches an advertising campaign claiming that Cornell,instead of testing its software before it is marketed,has its customers "test" the software by using it.Cornell knows this is not true but begins to lose sales to Stanford.On what grounds could Cornell sue Stanford for injury to Cornell's reputation?

Causation in fact exists if an injury would not have occurred without the defendant's act.

Some risks are obvious but,with respect to the duty of care required to establish negligence,a warning is always necessary.

The purpose of tort law is to punish criminal wrongdoers.

Drake pushes Evon into the path of an oncoming car driven by Flip.Gina tries to rescue Evon,but the car hits both of them.Drake is liable for the injuries of

If it can be shown that a trespass to personal property was warranted,a complete defense exists.

False imprisonment is a legal term for "privilege to detain."