Torts Affecting Business

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A tort is any civil wrong other than a breach of contract.

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Rita was drunk while driving her car and she hit Ana's car. This makes Ana a tortfeasor.

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A defendant can be found liable for a strict liability tort even though the defendant neither intentionally nor negligently caused the harm.

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One is not liable for another's injury unless he or she has a duty toward the person injured.

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An assault is an illegal touching of another.

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Touching can constitute a battery only when it causes physical injury.

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You can commit a civil assault without committing a civil battery.

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False imprisonment involves intentional unjustified confinement of a nonconsenting person.

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Malicious prosecution arises from causing someone to be arrested criminally without proper grounds.

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The tort of trespass arises only when a defendant damages the property of the plaintiff.

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News media are protected under the First Amendment when they publish information about public figures and public officials.

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Your roommate is away for the weekend and you take her Accounting 101 book to study in the library. You have not taken her permission but you intend to return the book before she returns so you don't think that it would matter. While you are in the library, the book is stolen. In this situation, your roommate can sue you for battery.

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You are guilty of the tort of conversion if you purchase stolen goods, even if you didn't know that they are stolen.

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Defamation is the publication of untrue statements about another that hold up that individual's character or reputation to contempt and ridicule.

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Written defamation, or defamation published over radio or television, is termed slander.

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If a professor, during a class, accuses a student of being a thief when in truth the student had never stolen anything in his life, the professor is guilty of libel.

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Individuals as well as corporations are allowed to sue for defamation.

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Defamatory remarks are presumed false unless the defendant can prove their truth.

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Injurious falsehood involves the publication of untrue statements that disparage the business owner's product or its quality.

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Injurious falsehood is also called false imprisonment.

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