October 10, 2011 - Torts and Cyber Torts

1. What is a tort?

2. Provide one example of a business tort?

3. What are cyber torts?

4. Describe the purpose of a tort?


5.  Define compensatory damages.

6. Why do some want tort reform?

7. List three goals of tort reform.

8. An intentional tort requires ___________.

9. Who is the tortfeasor?

10. Define an assault.

11. Define a battery.

12. List four defenses to assault and battery.

13. Describe intentional infliction of emotional distress.


14. Define defamation.

15. What is libel?

16. What is slander?

17. What is typically an absolute defense against defamation?

18. List four types of invasion of a right to privacy.

19. What is an appropriation?

20. Describe fraudulent misrepresentation.

21. Describe wrongful interference with a contractual relationship.

22. Is wrongful interference with a business relationship a tort?  Why or why not?

23. Describe trespass to land.

24. What is trespass to personal property?

25. What is a conversion?

26. Brief Trustees of University of D.C. v. Vossoughi.

27. What is an unintentional tort? 

28. List the four elements of an unintentional tort.

29. Describe the reasonable person standard.

30. Why do landowners owe a duty to protect persons coming onto their property?

31. Describe the duty of professionals.

32. Brief Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R.

33. What is Res Ipsa Loquitur?

34. What is negligence per se?

35. Describe a cyber tort.