BUSFIN 3500 Lecture 3: 3. Torts
7 Feb 2017
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Iii. b. c. a. b. a. b. c. Privacy torts - false light, public disclosure, appropriation, intrusion. Trespass to realty - enter without permission; put something on property w/o permission; not leaving when asked. Compensatory (get money) or nominal (show wrong but no money) Duty + breach + cause + damages = liability. Duty: behave as reasonable person in similar circumstances i. Breach of duty: didn"t do your duty i. Actual cause - but for defendant"s actions, damages would not have happened. Proximate cause - injury from defendant"s actions were foreseeable. Res ipsa loquitur - can"t prove but this wouldn"t of been happened without negligence so . Intervening cause - something happened that broke the normal causal chain. Driver getting stung by bee and causing wreck i. ii. Assumption of the risk - you acknowledge the risks and usually sign a waiver. Implied assumption would be very risky behaviors like sky jumping.
