LEB 320F Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: False Advertising, False Light, Summary Judgment
16 Dec 2016
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Spell out rights and duties related to private agreements between individuals, and to compensate a wronged party for any breaches of contract. Define wrongs against the state types of conduct so inherently undesirable that they were flatly prohibited-and to permit the state to punish those who committed such acts by the imposition of fines or imprisonment. Any law that is not contract or criminal. Plaintiff has an interest the law must protect. The defendant must have had a duty to the plaintiff that was breached. Negligence, intentional tort (assault and battery), defamation (libel and slander), fraud, invasion of privacy, trespass, false imprisonment, etc. Defendant owed a duty of due care and breached that duty, the breach caused injury, and the injury actually occurred. Otis engineering corp. v. clark - premise - matheson, employee of otis, was drunk on the job. His boss asked him to leave and escorted him to the parking lot.
