Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: The Home Depot, Store Detective, Implied Consent

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B
• Professor: Philip King

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Examples of activities and businesses that could be subject to a tort action. A customer in a grocery store slips on a lettuce and falls, breaking his ankle. A store detective detains a shopper, assuming incorrectly, that the shopper has stolen merchandise. A salesperson intentionally overstates an important quality of a product because she wants to close a sale. A golf course adversely affects an adjacent landowner because players continually drive balls into her yard. Examples of businesses are liable for its tortuous conduct. A newspaper columnist maligns the environmental record of a business. Vandals continually spray-paint graffiti on factory walls. A competitor entices a skilled employee to break his employment contract and join the competitor"s business. A new business creates a logo that is remarkably similar to that of an existing business in the same market. Tort actions may arise in relation to property in a number of ways. Most common: the occupier* of the property harms others.