Torts
Negligence
Intentional Torts
Strict Liability
Economic Harm & Dignitary Torts
Duty
Breach
Causation
Damages
Defenses
Reasonably Prudent Person
Different Standards of Care
Professionals
Common carriers & innkeepers
Rescuer's Rule
Children
Customer/industry usage
Statutes
negligence per se
res ipsa loquitor
Actual
Proximate
burden shifting test
but-for test
substantial factor test
Eggshell P
Unforeseeable intervening acts
P has duty to mitigate damages
Punitive damages
personal injury
Property damage
Non-recoverable
Joint & Several Liability
Contributory Negligence
Pure Comparative Negligence
Modified Comparative Negligence
Assumption of Risk
Intent & Transfered Intent
Against Property
Against Persons
Defenses
defense of property
self-defense
defense to others
necessity consent
conversion
trespass to land
trespass to chattels
assault
battery
false imprisonment
IIED
D is liable for injuring a P whether the D exercised due care
Prima facie case
Liability for animals
Abnormally dangerous activity
defective products
inadequate warning
manufacturing defects
design defect
Invasion of privacy
Defamation
Constitutional Considersations
Misrepresentations
nuisance
Public
Private
public official
public figure
matter of public concern
Subject Matter of Controversy
required for presumed or punitive damages
publication of facts placing P in false light
appropriation of P's name or picture
intrusion on P's affairs/seclusion
public disclosure of private facts about P
misstatement of fact
scienter/malice
intent to induce reliance
justifiable reliance
causation
damages
Elements
Types
Damages
Defenses
punitive
general
pecuniary
publicaton
defamatory message
harm to reputation
consent
truth
privileges
absolute
qualified
libel
slander
slander per se