LGLS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: False Imprisonment, Implied Consent, Road Rage
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Intentional torts: infliction of emotional distress a person who, by outrageous conduct, causes severe emotional distress to another is liable for the emotional distress. Ex: debt collector lies to parent about son being in accident to lore her to hospital and contact her about credit. Used outrageous conduct and caused emotional distress over son caused by debt collector. Ex: finger in coke bottle, rat in chicken sandwich: battery intentional touching of the body of another or an object closely associated with the body in a harmful or offensive manner. Ex: punching someone, kissing someone, slapping someone"s butt. Ex: bill gates gives a speech and gets hit in the face with a pie. Ex: pitcher purposely throws a baseball at someone"s head. Ex: hitting someone"s car on purpose in road rage. Ex: woman claims doctor branded her uterus. Ex: football player tackles qb and breaks his shoulder. Not battery because it is part of the game.
