Exam 7: Intentional Torts

In an article about a prominent judge,a newspaper indicates the possibility that the judge had organized crime connections.The judge sues.The judge will have a cause of action:

"Punitive damages" is a term referring to damages that will merely compensate victims for the harm they have suffered,but that will cost defendants more money than they have.

The tort of ____ is a false communication which injures a person's reputation and good name by disgracing him and diminishing the respect in which he is held.

An employer:

Storeowners may,in some cases,be liable for false imprisonment when they seek to question a suspected shoplifter.

Arnold wrote a defamatory letter regarding Bill which he did not show to anyone,but which he posted on a bulletin board in the laundromat.Arnold has committed:

Miller gave the keys to his apartment to his friend Jack so Jack could sleep after a late-night study session.When Jack walked in,Miller's roommate,Sam,was standing behind the door in the dark,holding a baseball bat over his head.Jack flicked on the light and Sam saw it was Jack,so he lowered the bat before Jack noticed him.In this case:

Arthur fired a gun in the middle of the desert.He intended to fire the gun,but had no reason to believe anyone else was in the area.If the bullet hits Tom,who happened to be riding his ATV across the desert:

Defamation pertains to personal reputation,whereas disparagement pertains to economic interests.

The Hometown News snapped a picture of Tom,a local teenager,as he was sleeping under a tree in the park on a warm spring day.If they print the picture on the front page of the paper:

An absolute privilege exists to protect which of the following in defamation cases?

Fraudulent or intentional misrepresentation is covered under Section ____ of the Restatement.

Pointing an unloaded gun at someone who believes it is loaded and threatening to shoot constitutes an assault.

Intent as used in the law of intentional torts requires the defendant to:

One of the principal objectives of tort law is to prevent future harms and losses.

Harper,while walking in a park,got hit on the head with a baseball.The ball was thrown at her by Aaron who intended to hit her to show off in front of his friends.She may recover damages for:

The tort of false light imposes liability if the matter in question is objectionable to a reasonable person but is not necessarily defamatory.

Zander threw a bomb into the office of his insurance agent,intending to kill the agent because the company had disallowed his claim.The agent wasn't in the building,but the bomb seriously injured his secretary,who was working in the office.Zander:

What are the two broad categories of defenses available to intentional torts? Under what circumstances can the U.S.Constitution be used as a defense to an action for an intentional tort?

The intentional exercise of dominion or control over another's personal property which so seriously interferes with the other's right of control as to justly require the payment of full value for the property is: