Lecture on Chapter 10: White Collar Torts
I.
What is a tort?
II.
Placing torts in a general business law context
A. Torts compared to crimes
B. Tort law is a legal laboratory
C. Tort classifications
1. Type of victim
2. Type of wrong
III.
Negligence
A . Definition: duty, breach of standard of care,
proximately causing, damages
B. Duty
1. First Florida Bank v. Max Mitchell
C. Breach of the standard of care
1. The standard: ORP person standard
2. Negligence per se
a. Munford v. Peterson
3. Inference of negligence: res ipse loquitur
D. Proximate cause
1. Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co.
E. Damages
F. Defenses to negligence
1. contributory negligence
2. assumption of risk
3. damage apportionment
IV. Strict liability
A. Why allow ultra hazardous activities?
B. Defenses to strict liability
1. Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad v. American
Cyanamid Co.
V.
Intentional torts
A. Intentional torts compared to crimes
B. Intentional torts compared to negligence
C. Intentional torts compared to contracts
D. Remedies for intentional torts
1. Legal remedies
a. nominal damages
b. compensatory damages
c. punitive damages
2. Equitable remedies
a. Injunctions
b. Specific performance
c. Accountings
E. Fraud
1. Elements of fraud
2. Hewlett v. Hewlett
F. False imprisonment
1. remedies
2. defenses to false imprisonment
G. Invasion of privacy
1. Intrusion on solitude or seclusion
2. Public disclosure of private facts
3. Unauthorized appropriation of name or likeness
4. Holding up a person in a false light
5. Defenses to invasion of privacy
6. Case example of invasion of privacy
a. Felsher v. Univ. of Evansville (8th ed.)
b. Chapman v. LabOne (9th ed.)
H. Conversion
1. What can be converted
2. Examples of conversion
I. Abuse of process
J. Wrongful interference with contractual relations
1. Defenses
2. Case example: Texaco v. Pennzoil
K. Intentional infliction of mental distress
L. Defamation
1. Definition
2. Defenses to defamation
a. truth
b. lack of an element of the definition
c. privilege (absolute or qualified)
d. case example: East v. Bullock’s