Business Law with UCC
Applications,13e
Tort Law and Cybertorts
Chapter 6
McGrawHill/Irwin
Copyright © 2013 by The McGrawHill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
Learning Objectives
1. Differentiate between the objectives of
tort law and those of criminal law
2. Outline the nature of respondeat superior
3. Discuss the element of duty
4. Identify the principal intentional torts and
outline the elements of each
5. Explain the four elements of negligence
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Learning Objectives
6. Contrast contributory negligence, comparative
negligence, and assumption of the risk
7. Judge when the doctrine of strict liability
applies
8. Discuss the emerging concept of cybertort law
9. Outline the various remedies available in tort
law
10. Point out some developments in tort reform
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Tort Law and Cybertorts
• Tort Law Defined
– Tort Law versus Criminal Law
– Respondeat Superior
– The Element of Duty
– Causation and Juriscience
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Tort Law and Cybertorts
• Intentional Torts
– Assault and Battery
– False Imprisonment
– Defamation and Disparagement
– Fraudulent Misrepresentation
– Invasion of Privacy
– Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
– Misuse of Legal Procedure
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Tort Law and Cybertorts
• Defamation and Disparagement
– Defamation
– Disparagement
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Tort Law and Cybertorts
• Invasion of Privacy
– Revelation of confidential records
– Intrusion
– Creating a false light
– Exploitation
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Tort Law and Cybertorts
• Negligence
– Elements of Negligence
– Defenses to Negligence
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Tort Law and Cybertorts
• Elements of Negligence
– Legal duty
– Breach of duty
– Actual and proximate cause
– Actual harm
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Tort Law and Cybertorts
• Defenses to Negligence
– Contributory negligence
– Comparative negligence
– Assumption of the risk
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Tort Law and Cybertorts
• Strict Liability
– Grounds for Strict Liability
– Product Liability
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Tort Law and Cybertorts
• Cybertorts
– The Nature of Cybertorts
– Cyberdefamation
– Cyberdisparagement
– Cyberinvasion of Privacy
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Tort Law and Cybertorts
• Cyberinvasion of Privacy
– Privacy and employees
– Privacy and clients
– Private privacy and public privacy
– Data mining of public private data
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Tort Law and Cybertorts
• Remedies for Torts
– The Right to Damages
– The Right to an Injunction
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Tort Law and Cybertorts
• Developments in Tort Law
– Survival Statutes and Wrongful Death
– The Tort Reform Movement
– Cultural Paradigms and Tort Reform
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Tort Law and Cybertorts
• Survival Statutes and Wrongful Death
– Survival statutes
– Wrongful death statutes
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Tort Law and Cybertorts
• The Tort Reform Movement
– Statutes of repose
– Comparative negligence and product liability
– Wrongful death reform
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Tort Law and Cybertorts
• Cultural Paradigms and Balance in Tort
Law
– Cultural paradigms
– Balance in tort law
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