Chapter 7 - Intentional Torts PDF

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Chapter 7: Intentional Torts Tort 1. 2. 3. 4. -

A Duty owed by one person to another Is breached and Proximately causes (connects breach and damage) In jury or damage to the owner of a legally protected interest You have an obligation to our society not to hurt people (your rights end where your neighbors nose begins

Intent - Don’t have to intend the exact outcome of the event (ex: throw a rock at Don but hit Susan, the court would say you threw a rock at a group of people you must have realized you could have hurt someone) Harm to the Person - Battery (an intentional infliction of harmful or offensive bodily contact) - Assault (intentional conduct by one person directed at another that place the other in apprehension of imminent bodily harm or offensive contact; must put an individual in fear of injury) False Imprisonment - Intentional confining of a person against her will within fixed boundaries if the person is conscious of the confinement or is harmed by it Infliction of emotional distress - A person by extreme and outrageous conduct intentionally or recklessly severe emotional distress to another Harm to the right of dignity - Defamation (false communication that injures a person’s reputation by disgracing him and diminishing the respect in which he is held) (2 categories slander (spoken) and Liable (written)) (disparagement= defamation to a business) - Invasion of privacy (appropriation of a person’s name or likeness, unreasonable intrusion upon the seclusion of another, unreasonable public disclosure of private facts, or unreasonable publicity that places another in a false light in the public eye) - Intrusion (unreasonable and highly offensive interference with the solitude or seclusion of another) - Public disclosure of private facts (private information made public and is highly offensive and objectionable to a reasonable person) - False light (put a person in a situation that in fact is not to and disperse the information) - Misuse of legal procedure ( Harm to economic interests - Interference with contractual relations (if someone is in contract it is illegal for you to try and make them break that contract) 789 Swzd 2d (1987) - 789 = volume - order - page number on which the case begins...