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Torts Outline
Professor Jed Shugerman
DUTY
Intentional Torts (Vosberg, kick)
Dual Intent (Vosberg, kick)
Transferred Intent (Talmage, transferred intent w/ stick)
Private Necessity (Ploof, boat goes; Vincent, boat stays)
Public Necessity (Respublica, house burning error)
Consent (Vosberg, kick)
Reasonable Care (Vaughn, haystack)
Semi-objective Care
Child (Roberts, car)
Insane (Breunig, Batmobile)
Nonfeasance (Hurley, doctor)
Misfeasance (Montgomery, ice truck)
Special Relationships
Negligent Entrustment (Weirum, radio)
Landlords (Kline, mugging)
Psychiatrists (Tarasoff, Berkeley psycho)
Premises
Trespassers
Licensee (Robert Addie, att. nuisance)
Business Invitees (Dalury, ski crash)
California Rule (Rowland, 3-part test)
Statutes
Clarification of RC (Martin, headlights)
Private COA (Uhr, scoliosis)
Comm. Cars. / Innkeepers (Andrews, United Airlines)
Strict Liability
ADAs
Ultrahazardous (Rylands, reservoir)
ADA (Cyanamid, train toxins)
RST / RTT (main factor: great harm)
Unexpected ADAs
Third-Parties (Yukon, unexpected thieves)
Abnormally Sensitive (Madsen, minks)
Animals & Fires (Epstein 968, must know)
Nuisances (Boomer, pollution)
Coming to the Nuisance (Spur Inds., feedlot)
Product Liability
Manufacture (Escola, Coca-Cola)
Design
Risk-Utility (Denny, Ford Bronco)
Consum. Exp. (Castro, QVC netwrk pan)
Warning (MacDonald, over-cluttered warning)
Vicarious Liability
“Frolics” (Bushey, US sailor)
Intentional (Lisa M., related to work OK)
Hostile Environment (Burlington, sex harass.)
Negligent Hiring (Schechter, hiring criminals)
PURPOSES OF TORT LAW
Corrective Justice: Victims should be made whole by matching with the people who harmed them. Individual fairness.
Redress of Social Grievances / Social Justice: Victims should have their day in court, and should be able to put authorities on trial.
Collective Justice / Optimal Deterrence: Best cost avoiders should be deterred from causing socially unacceptable harms.
Compensation / Loss Distribution: Victims should be compensated for their losses by groups most responsible or able to do so.
Judicial Economy : The court system should dissuade unnecessary or frivolous lawsuits.
BREACH
Negligence (Generally) (Brown, stick; Robinson, hole)
Foreseeability (Blyth, extreme frost)
Balance (Cooley, telephone explosion)
BPL (Carroll Towing, bargee)
Custom (The T.J. Hooper, radios evidence but not dispositive)
Doctors (FFTL, dispositive)
Statutes (Gorris, sheep, harm within the statute)
Exceptions (Tedla, walking on wrong side)
Internal Regulations (Lucy Webb, not neg. per se)
Res Ipsa Loquitur (Byrne, barrel; Colmenares, escalator)
Multiple Δs (Ybarra, doctors)
Utmost Care (Andrews, United Airlines)
CAUSE-IN-FACT
But-For Causation (Grimstad, life preserver)
Insult to Injury (Haft, no lifeguard; “stick it to breacher”)
Substantial Factor (Zuchowicz, FDA overdose)
Uncertainty (Reynolds, staircase)
Lost Chance (Herskovitz, “dead man walking”)
Prob. Fut. Consequences (Jackson, asbestosis; 50%)
Joint-Several Liability (Kingston, train fire)
Alternative Causation (Summers, hunters)
Enterprise Liability (Hall, blasting caps)
Market-Share Liability (Skipworth, lead poisoning)
PROXIMATE CAUSATION
Foreseeability (Palsgraf, fireworks and trains)
Harm-within-the-Risk (Berry, speeding train hit tree)
Substantial Factor (Kinsman, ship creating dam)
Directness (Polemis, boat board blowup)
Heightened Risk (Marshall, stalled driver hit by Θ)
3rd Party Harm (Wagon Mound, oil fire; Watson, train fire)
3rd Party Rescue (Wagner, train cliff diver)
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