Exam 6: Intentional Torts

Any lawful contract can form the potential basis for an action based on wrongful in?terference with a contractual relationship.

Federal law permits the use of unsolicited commercial e-mail but prohibits certain types of spamming activities.

An Internet service provider is not normally liable for its users' defamatory remarks.

Slander involves the oral communication of defamatory language.

Tortfeasor is the term for a person who commits a tort.

Variety Auto Maker, Inc., uses, in its television ads, a recording by Wendy. For this use, Variety pays a fee to the owner of the rights to the recording. Over time, the song comes to be associated with Variety's products. Wendy re?sents this association and sues Variety. Variety has committed

As a joke, Jem takes Kyla's business law textbook and hides it so that Kyla cannot find it during the week before the exam. Jem may have committed

Publishing false information about another's product is conversion.

As a joke, Fran hides Gary's business law textbook so that he cannot find it during the week before the exam. Fran is liable for

Elin participates in an off-road vehicle race on Freedom Ranch land, with Freedom's consent for the two days of the race. During the race, Elin's vehicle breaks down. She leaves it on Freedom's land for ten days before removing it. Elin has committed

To commit an intentional tort, a person must intend to perform an act that causes harm.

Jaqy distributes a handbill among her neighbors accusing one of them-Ked-of being a convicted sex offender. The statement is defamatory only if

After two years of research and an investment of a substantial amount of money, Coast-to-Coast Company (CC) develops a new product that it hopes will produce substantial profits. CC learns that a competitor, National Sales, Inc., has made and begun to sell a nearly identical prod?uct. CC learns from a reliable source that National paid a CC employee to obtain the plans for CC's product when it was in development. What legal re?course does CC have against National?

Lew angrily accuses Meg, a broker with New Financial Services, of fraudulently inducing him to invest in Open Pit Oil Company, whose wells are dry. The reliance that gives rise to liability for fraud is normally based on a statement of

False imprisonment is a tort only if the confinement or restraint is justified.

False imprisonment occurs when a person is restrained by another intentionally and without justification.

Clem, a Delite Dairy salesperson, follows Edna, a salesperson for Festive Foods, a Delite competitor, as Edna visits stores to make sales. Clem solicits each of Edna's customers. Clem is most likely liable for

To commit trespass to land, a person must harm the land.

Direct Marketing, Inc., floods the e-mail boxes of the employees of Eagle Products Corporation with unsolicited ads to the extent that the employees cannot e-mail each other. Direct has most likely committed

To commit an intentional tort, one person must intend to harm a certain other person.