Lessons by Subject Outline - Torts
- 1. Introduction/ Overview
- How to Prepare for the Study of Torts Law Podcast (TRT48P)
- Advice to a 1L From a Law Professor Podcast (LCS05P)
- 1.1. History, tradition, roles, common law background, general overview
- 1.2. Role of Juries
- 2. Intentional Torts Against the Person
- 2.1. "Intent" defined
- 2.2. Battery
- 2.3. Assault
- 2.4. Intentional infliction of emotional distress (IIED)
- 2.5. False imprisonment
- 2.6. Fundamental Concepts of Damages
- 3. Defenses to Intentional Torts
- 3.1. Consent
- Intentional Torts (TRT04)
- 3.1.1. Capacity to Consent (medical care, athletic events, acts beyond consent)
- 3.2. Consent as Defense
- 3.1. Consent
- 4. Intentional Torts Against Property
- 4.1. Trespass to Land
- Intentional Torts (TRT04)
- Damages for Harms to Real Property (TRT15)
- 4.1.1. General
- 4.1.2. Defenses
- 4.1.3. Contrasted to Nuisance
- 4.2. Trespass to chattels
- Trespass to Chattels (TRT47)
- 4.2.1. General
- 4.2.2. Damages measured
- 4.2.3. Defenses
- 4.3. Conversion
- Conversion (TRT46)
- 4.3.1. General
- 4.3.2. Remedies
- 4.3.3. Defenses
- 4.1. Trespass to Land
- 5. Negligence
- 5.1. Elements of negligence
- 5.1.1. Duty
- Negligence (TRT05)
- Palsgraf v. Long Island RR Co. Podcast (TRT05P)
- 5.1.1.1. Basic Duty Concepts
- 5.1.1.2. Misfeasance and nonfeasance
- 5.1.1.2.1. Duty to warn
- 5.1.1.3. Effect of contract
- 5.1.1.4. Mental suffering
- 5.1.1.5. Unborn children, wrongful life, wrongful birth, survival actions
- 5.1.1.6. Obligation to control the conduct of others
- 5.1.1.6.1. Duty to warn
- 5.1.1.7. Purely economic loss
- 5.1.2. Breach of Duty
- 5.1.2.1. Standards of Care
- 5.1.2.1.1. Reasonable Person
- 5.1.2.1.2. Children and Others
- 5.1.2.1.3. Professionals
- 5.1.2.1.4. Emergency doctrine
- 5.1.2.2. Proof of Breach of Duty
- 5.1.2.3. Civil and criminal statutes
- 5.1.2.4. Medical Malpractice
- 5.1.2.1. Standards of Care
- 5.1.3. Proximate cause a.k.a. legal cause
- 5.1.3.1. Causation in fact
- 5.1.3.2. Proof causation
- 5.1.3.3. Proximate cause
- 5.1.3.4. Foreseeability
- 5.1.3.5. Intervening cause
- 5.1.4. Damages
- 5.1.4.1. Actual damages
- 5.1.1. Duty
- 5.2. Res Ipsa Loquitur
- 5.1. Elements of negligence
- 6. Defenses in Negligence Actions
- Negligence (TRT05)
- 6.1. Contributory negligence standards & last clear chance
- 6.2. Comparative negligence/fault
- 6.3. Assumption of risk
- 6.4. Statutes of Limitations & repose
- 6.5. Family
- 6.6. Sovereign Immunity
- 6.7. Federal Tort Claims Act
- 7. Multiple Tortfeasors
- 7.1. Multiple Tortfeasors
- 8. Owners and Occupiers of Land
- 8.1. Outside premises
- 8.2. Trespassers
- 8.3. Licensees
- 8.4. Invitees
- 8.5. Landlord and tenant
- 9. Vicarious Liability
- 9.1. Application of the concept
- 9.1.1. Employer-Employee General Concepts
- 9.2. Other Categories (joint enterprise, family, vehicles)
- 9.1. Application of the concept
- 10. Strict Liability
- 10.1. Animals
- 10.2. Ultra-hazardous & abnormally dangerous activities
- 11. Compensation Systems
- 11.5. Worker's Compensation
- 11.6. No-fault auto insurance
- 12. Products Liability
- 12.1. Liability for defectively designed products
- 12.2. Liability for defectively manufactured products
- 12.3. Warranty
- 13. Nuisance
- 13.1. Nuisance in general
- 13.2. Public & private
- 14. Damages
- 14.1. General concepts of damages
- 14.2. Compensatory damages
- 14.3. Damages to personal property
- 14.3.1. Fundamentals
- 14.3.2. Interests in physical integrity of personal property
- 14.3.3. Possessory interests
- 14.3.4. Use & enjoyment
- 14.4. Harms for personal injury & death
- 15. Extra Topics
- 15.1. Invasion of Privacy
- 15.1.1. General Overview
- 15.1.2. Detailed analysis of each claim for relief
- 15.1.2.1. Intrusion
- 15.1.2.2. Public Disclosure
- 15.1.2.3. False light
- 15.1.2.4. Commercial appropriation
- 15.1.3. Limitations on the right of privacy
- 15.1.3.1. Constitutional limits
- 15.1.3.2. General Defenses
- 15.2. Defamation
- 15.2.1. Basic law & issues
- 15.2.2. Libel and slander
- 15.2.3. Constitutional Limitations and defenses
- 15.3. Civil Rights Torts
- 15.4. Impact of insurance on tort litigation
- 15.5. Business Torts
- 15.5.1. Misrepresentation
- 15.5.2. Intentional interference with contractual relations
- 15.5.3. Interference with prospective advantage
- 15.1. Invasion of Privacy
