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Battery - Intent to Contact

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Kid put firecracker in other kid’s shoe but didn’t intend or foresee the harm

Mentally insane person killed father-in-law for irrational suspicion

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Battery - Offensive Contact

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Radio host blew cigar smoke into face of guest against indoor public smoking

Co-worker buckled another co-worker’s knee from behind, but bad injury resulted

Dementia patient attacked and punched nurse

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Battery - Harmful Contact

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Defendant intended to pistol whip plaintiff but instead shot him in the stomach

Correctional officer struck inmate with a branch but caused no harm

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Assault

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Man invited young girl to his trailer, but instead her whole family showed up, dad with a gun

Billboard brothers threatened future violence of activist over the telephone

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Transfer of Intent Among People and Between Torts

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Teen defending house, shot toward a car of teens, ricocheted and struck neighbor

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Consent as a Defense to Assault and Battery

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Boy Scout participated in a paper clip game and got hit in the eye before withdraw

Estranged husband had sex with wife, but didn’t reveal that he had an STD

Boy severely harmed in a fist fight that he voluntarily participated in and could leave

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Justifying Use of Deadly Force

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Teen shot aggressive teen after aggressive teen repeatedly failed to back down

Father-in-law shot his son-in-law in the back as he was exiting house

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Proportionality Principle

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Dairy farmer, concerned about timeclock vandalism, broom-whips teen

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Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress - Outrageousness

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Dealership employees tricked car buyer to return car and mocked her

Wife cheated on husband with husband’s friend, but husband didn’t know

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Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress - Severe Emotional Distress

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Mom is distressed that her son’s cemetery is not maintained, but is she?

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Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress - Recklessness as Intent

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Swimming pool operator videotaped woman undressing in locker room

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Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress - Transferred Intent of Distress

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Newspaper reporter took pictures of woman’s dead son and quoted her

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Trespass

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Defendants trespassed while building a casino, despite best efforts to avoid it

Plaintiff and now deceased husband found trespassing neighbors digging a trench

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Public and Private Necessity for Trespass

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Steamship owner docked to company’s dock to avoid storm, caused dock damage

To avoid flood damages, state employees diverted water and flooded farmland

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Reasonable Person Standards

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Hayrick builder did a bad job and burned down neighbor’s farm

Cargo company employee accidentally set off crate of nitroglycerine

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Hand Formula

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Woman’s hotel room sliding door was unknowingly unlocked, nearly raped

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Range of the Reasonable Person Standard

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Plaintiff offered help working on a car at a mechanic’s shop and ended up getting blown up

Driver avoided a collision by swerving into oncoming traffic and causing collision

Experienced cement truck driver passes pickup on icy interstate and causes collision

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Reasonable Minors

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Teenager driving snowmobile wrecked and injured another teen

Kid went to neighbors, lit gasoline containers on fire, so parents sued neighbors

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Reasonable Person - Physical and Mental Disabilities

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Legally blind man with no dog or stick walking up a ramp relies on bushes as a railing

CNA kicked by Alzheimer’s nursing home resident while CNA was on the job

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Professional Standard

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Blood bank program didn’t test blood for HIV, and neither did any other blood bank

Rural delivery doctor injured infant

Nurses dropped hospitalized man twice during his stay

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Owners and Occupiers of Land - Trespassers

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Man was trespassing on defendant’s land to steel copper, got electrocuted

Boy caught eel, tried to cook on power company substation, burned

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Owners and Occupiers of Land - Licensees/Invitees

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Daughter’s boyfriend spent lots of time there, offered to cut down tree, got hurt

Business acquaintance trips on stick on porch picking up defendant for car ride

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Negligence per se

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Defendant hit plaintiff’s buggy without lights in middle of the night rounding curve

Pickup driver died after colliding with stalled gang truck with no warning devices

Two minors trespassed into pole storage, one dropped a cigarette and started fire

Builder installed decks against code, new owner who didn’t know, tenant injured

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Industry Custom

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Two tugboats not equipped with radios to receive weather forecasts, barges sank

High school baseball player injured in unprotected portion of visitor’s dugout

Customer injured in slip and fall and alleged violation of store’s procedures manual

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Res Ipsa Loquitur
Flour barrel fell on plaintiff, but he doesn’t know how it happened Company’s loading dock malfunctioned and caused injury to plaintiff truck driver Busted elevator caused uneven floor and patron injury
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But-for Test (actual causation, cause-in-fact)
Intoxicated man fell over bridge railing late at night while walking home from bar Woman pulled out in front of semi and was broadsided, semi was speeding
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Concerted Action
Passenger asked for ride home from friend, didn’t know how drunk he was, accident/death
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Vicarious Liability - Respondeat Superior and Vehicle Owners
Man driving own truck for employer hauling hay lost trailer, caused injury Pedestrian blinded in eye by egg thrown from vehicle driven by nonowner
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Alternative Liability
Two hunters negligently fired their guns in the direction of a third, injuring his eye Man was injured by a vehicle driven into her as a proximate cause of one of two persons
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Market Share Liability
Plaintiffs’ mothers took drugs during pregnancy that now have impact Woman’s husband died from asbestos exposure in airplane repair work
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Lost Chance of Recovery or Increased Risk of Eventual Harm
Man’s doctor misdiagnosed cancer for three years until it was too late to effectively treat Doctor was negligent and caused plaintiff to have an 8-16% increased risk of future obstruction
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Duty Factors - Foreseeability
Woman injured by large scale falling over caused by an exploding package across the platform Child conceived premature with complications years after mother was in car accident
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Duty Factors - Special Relationships
Plaintiff was harmed by a falling tree while participating in an outdoor basketball tournament Man drank too much at a party and wrecked his car into a motorcycle, injuring motorcyclist Husband and wife were injured in a motorcycle accident, struck by texting defendant
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Duty to Rescue or Protect
Man had “jackpot” heart attack at casino, nurse didn’t bring intubation tube Man and state trooper help wrecked Suzuki, trooper leaves, man hit, blames Suzuki Man left keys in fuel truck, drunk man stole it and cop was injured in the pursuit
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Protecting Third Parties
Psychologist tries to warn patient’s ex-girlfriend not to visit him, because he’ll kill her Physician’s patient likely had Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, but he didn’t warn patient’s wife
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Foreseeability
Student killed when a student jump-started pickup, lost control, pinned her against wall, wall fell Eggshell plaintiff was a struck pedestrian who already had quite a bit of medical conditions Ship owner’s ship caused chain reaction down river, drawbridge not raised in time, damaged
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Proximate Cause - Scope of Liability
Oil change collection tank built by father-in-law exploded, injuring an oil change employee Disassembled trampoline left on ground blows onto road in storm and causes pastor car crash
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Intervening and Superseding Forces
Man was wearing large George Bush head in Las Vegas, got shoved and injured Former cop left keys in car, thief stole car, led police on chase, caused car crash Roofers used smaller nails to secure the platform they were working on, it collapsed
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Intervening Force vs. Superseding Force
Plaintiff slipped and fell, 18 months later got back surgery, and surgeon caused infection Bad knee surgeries from multiple doctors result in infection and eventual amputation
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Assumption of Risk (Primary and Express)
Ski employee jumped crest and hit another skier below the crest, causing injury Parents objected to form that released school of duty to their children
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Strict Liability - Domestic and Wild Animals
Babysitter was “injured” by pet cat in basement Semi hit donkey in highway and damaged semi
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Strict Liability - Selected Dangerous Activities
Defendant’s dam burst, causing flood of plaintiff’s coal mines Plaintiff injured when a firework fired horizontally into them from defendant’s show

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