Handouts Table of Contents

Torts

Fall, 2009

I. SYLLABUS

A. Fall, 2009 4

II. PRACTICE EXAMS

A. Practice Exam: battery 14

B. Practice Exam: intentional torts 15

C. Practice Exam: negligence 17

III. HANDOUTS

A. Introduction to Torts

1. Introduction to torts; the policies of tort law 20

2. Trial process; football field diagram 23

3. Sample complaint; assault and battery 24

B. Intentional Torts

1. Battery

a. Elements of battery 26

b. Leichtman Hypo 27

c. Levels of intent: graph 28

d. Levels of intent: defined 29

e. Summary of battery materials: sample outline 30

2. Assault

a. Elements of assault 33

b. Transferred intent: miscarries as to person, miscarries as to tort and

miscarries as to tort and person 34

3. False Imprisonment

a. False imprisonment Elements 35

4. Torts to Property

a. trespass to land, conversion of chattels and trespass

to chattels 36

b. Ways of committing trespass to chattel 38

C. Defenses to Intentional Torts

1. Self Defense 39

2. Privilege v. Immunity 40

3. Shopkeepers privilege 41

4. Restatement 2^nd Torts, 120A; shopkeepers privilege 42

5. Liability for intentional intrusions on land; Restatement 2^nd Torts, 158 43

6. Self Defense and Defense of property 44

7. Deadly force to prevent or terminate intrusion on property; Restatement

2^nd Torts, 79 45

8. Amount of force allowed for defense of property; Use of Deadly Force; Defense of Dwelling 46

9. Amount of force permissible; transferred intent needs the intent to

commit a wrongful act 47

10. Effect of excessive force 50

D. Negligence

1. Duty and Breach

a. Amount of care; Restatement 2^nd Torts, 298 51

b. Formulas a jury may use to judge the conduct of the actor 52

c. United States v. Carroll Towing; "Hand Formula" 53

d. Custom 55

e. Evidence: forms a jury may use 56

f. Res Ispa Loquitur; Restatement 2^nd Torts 57

g. Sample of a jury instruction 58

2. Harm and Cause in Fact

a. Ways to sue 2 or more parties who cause one injury; joint and several

liability , contribution and indemnity

b. Indivisible injury

c. Duplicative v. Preemptive causes

d. Flow Chart; when there are 2 negligent actors

e. Causation in FACT: Chart and hypotheticals

3. Proximate Cause

a. Negligence Formula - through proximate cause

Part 2 neg. formula

b. Proximate cause & intervening cause

c. Superceding Cause - Restatement Sheet

4. Defenses

a. Comparative negligence worksheet

b. Assumption of the risk packet + hypotheticals

c. Gross & Jones cases

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