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Intentionally Inflicted Harms: The Prima Facie Case and Defenses

 * Physical Harms
 * Trespass to Person, Land, and Chattels
 * Vosburg v. Putney, 50 N.W. 403 (Wisc. 1891)
 * Dougherty v. Stepp, 18 N.C. 371 (N.C. 1835)
 * Intel Corp. v. Hamidi, 30 Cal. 4th 1342 (Cal. 2003)
 * Defenses to Intentional Torts
 * Consensual Defenses
 * Mohr v. Williams, 104 N.W. 12 (Minn. 1905)
 * Canterbury v. Spence
 * Hudson v. Craft, 33 Cal.2d 654 (Cal. 1949)
 * Insanity
 * McGuire v. Almy
 * Self-defense
 * Courvoisier v. Raymond
 * Defense of Property
 * Bird v. Holbrook
 * Recapture of Chattels
 * Kirby v. Foster
 * Necessity
 * Ploof v. Putnam
 * Vincent v. Lake Erie Transportation Co.
 * Thompson, The Trolley Problem
 * Emotional and Dignitary Harms
 * Assault
 * I. de S. and Wife v. W. de S.
 * Tuberville v. Savage, 86 Eng .Rep. 684 (K. B. 1669)
 * Blackstone, Commentaries (Vol. 3, p. 120 of the 1790 edition)
 * Offensive Battery
 * Alcorn v. Mitchell
 * False Imprisonment
 * Bird v. Jones
 * Coblyn v. Kennedy's, Inc.
 * Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress: Extreme and Outrageous Conduct
 * Wilkinson v. Downton, 2 Q.B. 57 (Q.B. 1897)
 * American Law Institute, Restatement (Second) of Torts § 46

Strict Liability and Negligence: Historic and Analytic Foundations

 * Formative Cases
 * The Thorns Case, Y.B. 6 Ed. 4 (K.B. 1466)
 * Weaver v. Ward
 * The Forms of Action
 * The Significance of the Forms
 * Trespass and Case
 * Scott v. Shepherd, 96 Eng. Rep. 525 (K.B. 1773)
 * The Breakdown of the Forms
 * Strict Liability and Negligence in the Last Half of the Nineteenth Century
 * Brown v. Kendall
 * Rylands v. Fletcher, U.K.H.L. 1 (1868)
 * Brown v. Collins
 * Powell v. Fall
 * Holmes, The Common Law (1881), pp. 77-84, 88-96
 * Strict Liability and Negligence in Modern Times
 * Bolton v. Stone, AC 850 (U.K.H.L. 1951)
 * Hammontree v. Jenner

The Negligence Issue

 * The Reasonable Person
 * Vaughan v. Menlove, 132 Eng. Rep. 490 (C.P. 1837)
 * Holmes, The Common Law (1881), pp. 107-109
 * Roberts v. Ring
 * Daniels v. Evans
 * Breunig v. American Family Insurance Co.
 * Fletcher v. City of Aberdeen
 * Robinson v. Pioche, Bayerque & Co.
 * Denver & Rio Grande R.R. v. Peterson
 * Calculus of Risk
 * Blyth v. Birmingham Water Works, 156 Eng. Rep. 1047 (Ex. Ch. 1856)
 * Eckert v. Long Island R.R.
 * Terry, Negligence, Harvard Law Review (1915), pp. 42-44
 * Seavey, Negligence—Subjective or Objective?, Harvard Law Review (1927), p. 8, n. 7
 * Osborne v. Montgomery
 * Cooley v. Public Service Co.
 * United States v. Carroll Towing Co., 159 F.2d 169 (2d. Cir. 1947)
 * Ross, Settled Out of Court, The Social Process of Insurance Claims Adjustment (2d ed., 1980), pp. 98-99
 * Lyons v. Midnight Sun Transportation Services, Inc.
 * Andrews v. United States
 * Custom
 * Titus v. Bradford, B. & K. R. Co.
 * Mayhew v. Sullivan Mining Co.
 * The T.J. Hooper
 * Lama v. Borras
 * Canterbury v. Spence
 * Statutes and Regulations
 * Thayer, Public Wrong and Private Action, Harvard Law Review (1914), pp. 321-323
 * Osborne v. McMasters
 * Restatement (Third) of Torts: Liability for Physical Harms § 14
 * California Evidence Code § 69(a)
 * Martin v. Herzog, 126 N.E. 814 (N.Y. 1920)
 * Brown v. Shyne
 * Uhr v. East Greenbush Central School District
 * Judge and Jury
 * Holmes, The Common Law (1881),pp. 110-111, 120-124
 * Baltimore and Ohio R.R. v. Goodman
 * Pokora v. Wabash Ry.
 * Jewell v. CSX Transportion, Inc.
 * Proof of Negligence
 * Problems of Proof
 * Res Ipsa Loquitur
 * Byrne v. Boadle, 159 Eng. Rep. 299 (1863)
 * Colmenares Vivas v. Sun Alliance Insurance Co.
 * Ybarra v. Spangard

Plaintiff's Conduct

 * Contributory Negligence
 * Basic Doctrine
 * Butterfield v. Forrester
 * Beems v. Chicago, Rock Island & Peoria R.R.
 * Schwartz, Tort Law and the Economy in Nineteenth-Century America: A Reinterpretation, Yale Law Journal (1981), pp. 1717, 1759-162
 * Gyerman v. United States Lines Co.
 * LeRoy Fibre Co. v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry.
 * Derheim v. N. Fiorito Co.
 * Last Clear Chance
 * Fuller v. Illinois Central R.R.
 * American Law Institute, Restatement (Second) of Torts § 479
 * Imputed Contributory Negligence
 * Mills v. Armstrong
 * Assumption of Risk
 * Lamson v. American Axe & Tool Co.
 * Murphy v. Steelpechase Amusement Co.
 * Obstetrics & Gynecologists Ltd. v. Pepper
 * Comparative Negligence
 * At Common Law
 * Beach, Beach on Contributory Negligence (2d ed. 1892), pp. 12-13
 * Prosser, Comparative Negligence, California Law Review (1953), pp. 3-4
 * Li v. Yellow Cab Co. of California, 532 P.2d 1226 (Cal. 1975)
 * By Legislation
 * Federal Employers Liability Act, 45 U.S.C. § 53 (2000)
 * New York Civil Practive Law and Rules §§ 1411-1412 (1997)
 * 42 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes § 7102 (1998)
 * Wisconsin Statutes § 895.045 (1997)
 * Restatement (Third) of Torts—Apportionment of Liability § 7

Multiple Defendants: Joint, Several, and Vicarious Liability

 * Joint and Several Liability
 * Union Stock Yards co. of Omaha v. Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy R.R.
 * California Civil Procedure Code §§ 875-877.5
 * American Motorcycle Association v. Superior Court
 * McDermott, Inc. v. AmClyde & River Don Castings, Ltd.
 * Vicarious Liability
 * Ira S. Bushey & Sons, Inc. v. United States
 * Petrovich v. Share Health Plan of Illinois, Inc.

Causation

 * Cause in Fact
 * New York Central R.R. v. Grimstad
 * Zuchowicz v. United States
 * General Electric Co. v. Joiner
 * Herskovits v. Group Health Cooperative
 * Kingston v. Chicago & N.W. Ry.
 * Summers v. Tice, 199 P.2d 1 (Cal. 1948)
 * Skipworth v. Lead Industries Association
 * Proximate cause (Herein of Duty)
 * Bacon, The Elements of the Common Lawes of England (1630)
 * Street, Foundations of Legal Liability (1906), Vol. I, p. 110
 * Ryan v. New York Central R.R.
 * Berry v. Sugar Notch Borough
 * Brower v. New York Central & H.R.R.
 * Wagner v. International Ry.
 * In re Polemis & Furness, Withy & Co., 3 K.B. 560 (1921)
 * Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R., 162 N.E. 99 (N.Y. 1928)
 * Marshall v. Nugent
 * Overseas Tankship (U.K.) Ltd. v. Morts Dock & Engineering Co., Ltd. (Wagon Mound (No. 1)), U.K.P.C. 1 (1961)
 * Emotional Distress
 * Mitchell v. Rochester Railway
 * Dillon v. Legg
 * Dillon v. Legg

Affirmative Duties

 * The Duty to Rescue
 * Luke 10:30-37
 * Buch v. Amory Manufacturing Co.
 * Hurley v. Eddingfield
 * Ames, Law and Morals, Harvard Law Review (1908), pp. 110-113
 * Epstein, A Theory of Strict Liability, The Journal of Legal Studies (1973), p. 198-200
 * Posner, Epstein's Tort Theory: A Critique, The Journal of Legal Studies (1979), p. 460
 * Bender, A Lawyer's Primer on Feminist Theory and Tort, Journal of Legal Education (1988), pp. 34-35
 * Montgomery v. National Convoy & Trucking Co.
 * Duties of Owners and Occupiers
 * Robert Addie & Sons (Collieries), Ltd. v. Dumbreck
 * Rowland v. Christian
 * Gratuitous Undertakings
 * Coggs v. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. 909 (K.B. 1703)
 * Erie R.R. v. Stewart
 * Marsalis v. LaSalle
 * Moch Co. v. Rensselaer Water Co.
 * American Law Institute, Restatement (Second) of Tort § 315
 * Kline v. 1500 Massachusetts Avenue Apartment Corp.
 * Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California, 551 P.2d 334 (Cal. 1976)

Traditional Strict Liability

 * Conversion
 * Poggi v. Scott
 * Moore v. Regents of the University of California, 793 P.2d 479 (Cal. 1990)
 * Animals
 * Gehrts v. Batteen
 * Ultrahazardous or Abnormally Dangerous Activities
 * Spano v. Perini Corp.
 * American Law Institute, Restatement (Second) of Tort §§ 519, 520
 * American Law Institute, Restatement (Third) of Torts: Liability for Physical Harm (Basic Principles) § 20
 * Indiana Harbor Belt R.R. v. American Cyanamid Co., 916 F.2d 1174 (7th Cir. 1990)
 * Nuisance
 * Private Nuisance
 * Vogel v. Grant-Lafayette Electric Cooperative
 * Fontainebleau Hotel Corp. v. Fort Five Twenty-Five, Inc.
 * Rogers v. Elliott
 * Ensign v. Walls
 * Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co., 26 N.Y.2d 219 (N.Y. 1970)
 * Public Nuisance
 * Anonymous, Y.B. Mich. 27 Hen. 8, f. 27, pl. 10 (1535) (Baldwin, C.J.) (dissent by Fitzherbert, J.)
 * 532 Madison Avenue Gourmet Foods, Inc. v. Finlandia Center, Inc.
 * Camden County Board of Chosen Freeholders v. Beretta, U.S.A. Corp.

Products Liability

 * Exposition
 * Winterbottom v. Wright, 152 Eng. Rep. 402 (Ex. 1842)
 * MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., 111 N.E. 1050 (N.Y. 1916)
 * Escola v. Coca Cola Bottling Co. of Fresno, 150 P.2d 436 (Cal. 1944)
 * The Restatements
 * A Tale of Two Texts
 * American Law Institute, Restatement (Second) of Torts § 402A
 * American Law Institute, Restatement (Third) of the Law of Products Liability §§ 1, 2
 * The Theory of Products Liability: Tort or Contract?
 * Casa Clara Condominium Association, Inc. v. Charley Toppino & Sons, Inc.
 * Proper Defendants Under Section 402A
 * Cafazzo v. Central Medical Health Services, Inc.
 * Products Defects
 * Manufacturing Defects
 * American Law Institute, Restatement (Third) of Torts § 3
 * Speller v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
 * Design Defects
 * Campo v. Scofield
 * 2 Harper and James On Torts § 28.5 (1956)
 * Wade, On the Nature of Strict Tort Liability for Products, in Mississippi Law Journal (1973), pp. 825, 836-837
 * Volkswagen of America, Inc. v. Young
 * Barker v. Lull Engineering Co.
 * Linegar v. Armour of America
 * Potter v. Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co.
 * Halliday v. Sturn, Ruger & Co.
 * The Duty to Warn
 * MacDonald v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp.
 * Vassallo v. Baxter Healthcare Corp.
 * Hood v. Ryobi America Corp.
 * Plaintiff's Conduct
 * Daly v. General Motors Corp.
 * Federal Preemption
 * Geier v. American Honda Motor Co., 529 U.S. 861 (U.S. 2000)

Damages

 * Recoverable Elements of Damages
 * Pain and Suffering
 * McDougald v. Garber
 * Economic Losses
 * O'Shea v. Riverway Towing Co.
 * Duncan v. Kansas City Southern Railway
 * Contingency Fees, Fee Shifting Devices, Sales of Tort Claims, and Litigation Insurance
 * Contingency Fees
 * Fee Shifting
 * Sales of Tort Claims
 * Litigation Insurance
 * Collateral Benefits
 * Harding v. Town of Townshend
 * Wrongful Death and Law of Consortium
 * Wrongful Death
 * History
 * Measure of Damages
 * Survival of Personal Injury Actions
 * Actions for Loss of Consortium
 * Punitive Damages
 * Kemezy v. Peters
 * State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell, 538 U.S. 408 (U.S. 2003)

The Institution of Insurance

 * The Scope of Insurance Coverage
 * Modern Tort Litigation
 * Dimmitt Chevrolet, Inc. v. Southeastern Fidelity Insurance Corp.
 * Automobile Insurance Coverage
 * The March to Compulsory Insurance
 * The Standard Provisions of the Automobile Insurance Contract
 * Ambiguities in the Position of the Liability Insurer
 * The Duty to Defend
 * The Obligation to Act in Good Faith
 * Crisci v. Security Insurance Co.

The No-Fault Systems

 * Workers' Compensation
 * Historical Origins
 * The Scope of Coverage: "Arising out of and in the Course of Employment"
 * Clodgo v. Industry Rentavision, Inc.
 * Wilson v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board
 * Benefits Under the Workers' Compensation Statutes
 * Exclusive Remedy
 * No-Fault Insurance
 * Automobile No-Fault Insurance
 * American Bar Association, Special Committee on Automobile Insurance Legislation, Automobile No-Fault Insurance (1978), pp. 13-17
 * Epstein, Automobile No-Fault Plans: A Second Look at First Principles, Creighton Law Review (1980), pp. 789-790
 * Pinnick v. Cleary
 * No-Fault Insurance for Medical and Product Injuries
 * The New Zealand Plan
 * Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry, Compensation for Personal Injury in New Zealand
 * Credit Suisse First Boston, Accident Compensation: Options for Reform 9-12 (1998)
 * The 9/11 Compensation Fund
 * Colaio v. Feinberg

Defamation

 * Publication
 * Doe v. Gonzaga University, 536 U.S. 273 (U.S. 2002)
 * Firth v. State of New York
 * False or Defamatory Statements
 * Parmiter v. Coupland
 * American Law Institute, Restatement (Second) of Torts § 559
 * Wilkow v. Forbes, Inc.
 * Muzikowski v. Paramount Pictures Corp.
 * Veeder, Freedom of Public Discussion, Harvard Law Review (1910), pp. 419-420
 * Libel and Slander
 * The Common Law Distinction
 * Libel Per Quod and Libel Per Se
 * Basis of Liability: Intention, Negligence, and Strict Liability in Defamation
 * ''E. Hulton & Co. v. Jones
 * Damages
 * Special Damages
 * Terwilliger v. Wands
 * ''Ellsworth v. Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, Inc.
 * General Damages
 * McCormick, Damages § 116 (1935)
 * Faulk v. Aware, Inc.
 * Other Remedies
 * Injunctions
 * Retraction
 * Reply Statutes
 * Nonconstitutional Defenses
 * Truth
 * Auvil v. CBS 60 Minutes
 * Privileges in the Private Sphere
 * Legal Proceedings and Reports Thereon
 * Kennedy v. Cannon
 * Reports on Public Proceedings or Meetings
 * Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. v. Jacobson
 * Fair Comment: Artistic and Literary Criticism
 * Constitutional Privileges
 * Public Officials and Public Figures
 * New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (U.S. 1964)
 * Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts, 388 U.S. 130 (U.S. 1967)
 * Private Parties
 * Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 418 U.S. 323 (U.S. 1974)
 * Philadelphia Newspapers v. Hepps

Privacy

 * Historical Background
 * Warren and Brandeis, The Right to Privacy, Harvard Law Review (1890), pp. 193-197
 * Prosser, Privacy, California Law Review (1960), pp. 383-384
 * Kalven, Privacy in the Tort Law—Were Warren and Brandeis Wrong?, Law and Contemporary Problems (1966), pp. 330-331
 * Prosser, Privacy, California Law Review (1960), pp. 389, 407
 * Intrusion Upon Seclusion
 * American Law Institute, Restatement (Second) of Torts § 652B
 * Nader v. General Motors Corp.
 * Desnick v. American Broadcasting Co., Inc.
 * Public Disclosure of Embarrassing Private Facts
 * American Law Institute, Restatement (Second) of Torts § 652D
 * Sidis v. F-R Publishing Corp.
 * Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn, 420 U.S. 469 (U.S. 1975)
 * Haynes v. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
 * False Light
 * American Law Institute, Restatement (Second) of Torts § 652E
 * Time, Inc. v. Hill
 * Commercial Appropriation of Plaintiff's Name or Likeness, or the Right of Publicity
 * New York Civil Rights Law §§ 50, 51
 * American Law Institute, Restatement (Second) of Torts § 652C
 * Restatement (Third): Unfair Competition § 46
 * White v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc
 * Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co., 433 U.S. 562 (U.S. 1977)
 * Factors Etc., Inc. v. Pro Arts, Inc.

Misrepresentation

 * Fraud
 * Pasley v. Freeman
 * Vulcan Metals Co. v. Simmons Manufacturing Co.
 * Swinton v. Whitinsville Savings Bank
 * Laidlaw v. Organ, 15 U.S. 178 (U.S. 1817)
 * Edginton v. Fitzmaurice
 * Laborers Local 17 Health and Benefit Fund v. Philip Morris, Inc.
 * Negligent Misrepresentation
 * Ultramares Corp. v. Touche, 174 N.E. 441 (N.Y. 1931)

Economic Harms

 * Inducement of Breach of Contract
 * Lumley v. Gye, 118 Eng. Rep. 749 (K.B. 1853)
 * Interference with Prospective Advantage
 * Tarleton v. M'Gawley
 * People Express Airlines, Inc. v. Consolidated Rale Corp.
 * Unfair Competition
 * Mogul Steamship Co. v. McGregor, Gow, & Co.
 * International News Service v. Associated Press, 248 U.S. 215 (U.S. 1918)
 * The National Basketball Assn. v. Motorola, Inc.
 * Mosler Safe Co. v. Ely-Norris Safe Co.

Tort Immunities

 * Domestic or Intrafamily Immunities
 * Parent and Child
 * Suits Between Parent and Child
 * Third Party Actions
 * Husband and Wife
 * Charitable Immunity
 * Municipal Corporations
 * At Common Law
 * By Statute
 * 745 Illinois Compiled Statutes §§ 10/2-102 — 10/2-202 (2003)
 * Under the Constitution
 * Sovereign Immunity
 * Berkovitz v. United States
 * Official Immunity
 * Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681 (U.S. 1997