To successfully bring an action under the doctrine of Invasion of Privacy, the wronged party must have an reasonable expectation of privacy and the invasion must be highly offensive.

The policy behind awarding Punitive Damages can include which of the following:

If Bob secretly looks thru a hotel room peephole and takes pictures through a hidden camera, then posts them on the internet for profit, then Bob is liable in tort for:

Ed lives in Merchantville , a state that has a so-called merchant protection statute (or shopkeeper's privilege). One day Ed goes to the grocery store to shoplift some steaks for dinner. The owner of the grocery store catches Ed red-handed in the act of shoplifting. He and an employee gently restrain Ed in the back room, feeding him gourmet food and wine until the local sheriff finally shows up three days later. If Ed sues the grocer for the tort of false imprisonment, he will win if he can prove that

Donita threw a knife at Ms. Pecker, intending to injure her severely. However, Donita missed Pecker and completely scared Ms. Pooper who quickly leaned back as the knife whizzed by her grill (face). This caused extreme anxiety in Pecker and Pooper

Ethics may be defined as:

In analyzing Business ethics regarding what constitutes ethical behavior in the business world, in the May v. Chrysler case discussed in class, Chrysler was found to be liable principally because:

Which of the following acts requires companies to set up confidential systems so that employees and others may "raise red flags" about suspected illegal and unethical auditing and accounting practices?

With respect to business ethics, the "moral minimum" is:

The basic purpose of tort law is to

If Sam threatens Jill with a gun but doesn't, in fact, shoot her, Jill may have a strong case to sue for ________ if she honestly believed that Sam could hurt her.

If someone uses a great picture of you to sell peanut butter and fails to get your consent to do this, you may be able to sue for:

Torts committed against property include

Which of the following DOES NOT constitute trespass to land?

Dweeb, in a hurry to get to his business law class on time, backs out of his driveway without taking the usual care and accidentally runs into Poindexter's 2009 Toyota Camry, causing $3,500 worth of damage to Poindexter’s car. Dweeb has committed which tort?

The landmark case discussed in class that established the "foreseeability" test for proximate cause, which asks if the connection between the act and injury is strong enough to impose liability was:

In which of the following scenarios would Tina be liable for the tort of negligence?

In a state that has adopted the comparative negligence doctrine, a jury finds that Bill is 35 percent liable for his own injuries in a negligence suit Bill brings against Tina. In this situation, Bill will recover:

Under the tort doctrine of strict liability, liability is:

The following items are the elements of a successful negligence action:

To successfully bring an action under the doctrine of Invasion of Privacy, the wronged party must have an unreasonable expectation of privacy and the invasion must be highly offensive.

Courts are very likely to award Punitive Damages for most actions won by Plaintiff.

Defamation liability requires publication of a defamatory statement which is false and purports to represent opinion and not fact.

“Tort tax” as discussed in class is said to be the result of too many cases clogging the courts and that tort reform could be needed.

Assumption of risk is a defense against negligence that can be used when the plaintiff was un-aware of a danger and involuntarily assumed the risk of injury from that danger