Exam 6: Tort Law

To gain a share of a market, a businessperson can interfere in another's business, even if the behavior is predatory.

Larry takes Kyla's textbook and hides it so that she cannot find it during the week before the exam. In taking the textbook, Larry most likely committed

An award of grossly excessive punitive damages is normally available in a suit involving gross negligence.

Erol works for Food Packing Company. Erol's supervisor Gwen writes a negative review of Erol's performance. Gwen believes the statements are true, and limits their communication to the firm's management. In a tort action for defamation, Gwen can most likely assert as a successful defense

Taking personal property from its owner, without permission or just cause, is trespass-retaining it is conversion.

An economically injurious falsehood about a business's product can support a tort action for disparagement of property.

Dixie, a driver for Express Delivery Company, leaves the truck's motor running in neutral and carelessly forgets to set the parking brake while she makes a delivery. The truck rolls and crashes into a nearby gas station pump, igniting a fire that spreads quickly to a construction site a block away. A burned wall collapses onto a crane, which falls on Fazio, a bystander, and injures him. What must Fazio show to recover damages from Express Delivery?

Buddy's Burgers advertises so effectively that the regular customers of its competitor Slimy's Sliders patronize Buddy's instead of Slimy's. This is

Ricard, an engineer, supervises the construction of a new mountainside roadway. The road collapses in a landslide due to faulty grading. Motorists injured in the collapse sue Ricard in a tort action for negligence. Under that theory, as a professional, Ricard is held to the same standard of care as

A wrongful action that interferes with a person's legal right to personal property can support a tort action in trespass.

Fran tells Gio that her Hyundai Kia has never been in an accident. This may give rise to an action for fraud if the statement is

Don interferes with the business interests of Erin in a way not permitted by law, and Erin's business is harmed as a result. To be liable to Erin for the commission of an intentional tort, Don must have