| Date |
Assignment |
Topic/Outline |
Focus
of Reading |
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I. Intentional Harm |
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| 9/4/01 |
SD
1 |
I.A.
Introduction to Civil Wronging |
Vosberg
v. Putney |
| 9/5/01 |
CB
864-879 |
I.B. Intent,
Assault and Battery |
Garrett
v. Dailey; Picard v. Barry Pontiac-Buick; Wishnatsky v.
Huey |
| 9/10/01 |
CB
879-905 |
I.C.
False Imprisonment; I.D. Emotional Distress |
ATCA;
Lopez v. Winchell's Donut House; Womack v. Eldridge; McDermott
v. Reynolds; |
| 9/11/01 |
CB
910-922 |
I.E. Defenses |
Hart
v. Geysel; Courvoisier v. Raymond; Katko v. Briney |
| 9/12/01 |
CB
917-928; SD2 |
I.E. Defenses/Privileges (cont'd) |
Ploof
v. Putnam; Vincent v. Lake Erie; "Legal Reasoning:
An Introduction" |
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II. Trespass |
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| 9/17/01 |
CB
652-658; SD
3 (Internet trespass cases) |
II. Trespass (and the weird contexts in which
it sometimes applies) |
Martin
v. Reynolds Metals; Compuserve v. Cyber Promotions; Intel
v. Hamidi; Marsh v. Alabama |
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III.
Negligence |
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| 9/18/01 |
CB
1-28 |
III.A. Introduction to negligence (litigation process;
vicarious liability) |
Hammontree
v. Jenner; Litigation Process; Parties and Vicarious Liability;
Christensen v. Swenson; Baptist Memorial Hospital v. Sampson |
| 9/19/01 |
CB
47-58 |
III.B. The Reasonable Person |
Bethel
v. NYC Transit Auth. |
| 9/24/01 |
CB
29-47 |
III.C. Risk & Prudence |
Strict
Liabilty versus Negligence: Brown v. Kendall; Standard
of Care: Adams v. Bullock, U.S. v. Carroll Towing Co. |
| 9/25/01 |
CB
58-73 |
III.D. Roles of Judge and Jury; III.E. Role of Custom |
Roles
of Judge and Jury: Baltimore & Ohio RR v. Goodman,
Pokora v. Wabash Railway, Andrews v. United Airlines;
Role of Custom: Trimarco v. Klein |
| 9/26/01 |
CB
73-85; SD
4 |
III.F. Negligence per se (Role of Statutes) |
Martin
v. Herzog; Tedla v. Ellman; SD 4 |
| 10/1/01 |
CB
85-109 |
III.G. Proof (Res Ipsa Loquitur) |
Negri
v. Stop and Shop, Gordon v. American Museum of Natural
History, Byrne v. Boadle, McDougald v. Perry; Ybarra v.
Spangard |
| 10/2/01 |
CB
130-151 |
III.H. Duty requirement: III.H.1. Duty to prevent others' physical injuries
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Obligations
to Others: Harper v. Herman, Farwell v. Keaton, Strauss
v. Belle Realty Co. |
| 10/3/01 |
CB
158-170; SD
5 |
III.H. Duty requirement: III.H.2. Duty to control others |
Tarasoff
v. Univ. of California, SD 5 |
| 10/8/01 |
Columbus
Day -- No Class |
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| 10/9/01 |
CB
170-190 |
III.H. Duty requirement: III.H.3. Duties of landowners and occupiers |
Randi
v. Muroc School Dist., Discussion of Fraud and Misrepresentation;
Vince v. Wilson; Reynolds v. Hicks |
| 10/10/01 |
CB
214-225 |
III.H. Duty requirement: III.H.4. Intrafamily Duties |
Broadbent v. Broadbent,
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| 10/15/01 |
CB
225-237, 244-260 |
III.H. Duty requirement: III.H.4. Government liability (duty of Government) |
Riss
v. NYC, Friedman v. State of NY, Federal Tort Claims Act
(FTCA), Cope v. Scott |
| 10/16/01 |
CB
261-278 |
III.H. Duty requirement: III.H.5.a. Duties relating
to nonphysical harms (emotional) |
Falzone
v. Busch, Metro North Commuter RR v. Buckley |
| 10/17/01 |
SD
5.5 |
Special
Session: Theoretical Approaches to Torts |
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| 10/22/01 |
CB
278-301 |
III.H. Duty requirement: III.H.5.a. Duties relating
to nonphysical harms (emotional) |
Gammon
v. Osteopathic Hospital, Portee v. Jaffee, Johnson v.
Jamaica Hospital, |
| 10/23/01 |
CB
301-325 |
III.H. Duty requirement: III.H.5.b. Duties relating
to nonphysical harms (economic) |
Nycal
v. KPMG Peat Marwick, People Express Airlines, Inc. v.
Consolidated Rail |
| 10/24/01 |
CB
341-349 |
III.I. Causation: III.I.1. Causation, generally |
Stubbs
v. City of Rochester |
| 10/29/01 |
CB
349-368 |
III.I. Causation: III.I.1. Causation, generally (cont'd) |
Zuchowicz
v. U.S., Alberts v. Schultz |
| 10/30/01 |
CB
368-394 |
III.I. Causation: III.I.2. Multiple Defendants |
Summers
v. Tice, Hymowitz v. Eli Lilly & Co. |
| 10/31/01 |
SD
6 |
III.I. Causation and Frameworks |
SD
6: Shavell; Fletcher Chapter 10 |
| 11/5/01 |
CB
399-412; 419-434 |
III.I. Causation: III.I.3. Proximate Cause |
Unexpected
Harm: Benn v. Thomas, In re Polemis, Overseas Tankship
v. Morts Dock & Engineering (Wagon Mound),
Unexpected Victim: Palsgraf v. Long Island RR Co.,
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| 11/6/01 |
CB
435-460 |
III.J. Defenses: III.J.1. Contributory and Comparative Fault |
Contributory
Negligence, Comparative Negligence: Uniform Comparative
Fault Act, Avoidable Consequences |
| 11/7/01 |
CB
461-476; 484-489 |
III.J. Defenses: III.J.2. Assumption of Risk |
Express
Agreements: Dalury v. S-K-I; Implied Assumption of Risk:
Murphy v. Steeplechase Amusement; Roberts v. Vaughn |
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IV. Strict Liability |
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| 11/12/01 |
Veteran's
Day -- No Class |
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| 11/13/01 |
CB
498-520 |
IV.A. Development of the Doctrine |
Fletcher
v. Rylands, Rylands v. Fletcher, Sullivan v. Dunham, Indiana
Harbor Belt RR v. Cyanamid Co. |
| 11/14/01 |
CB
520-539 |
IV.B. Theory |
Rabin:
The Ideology of Enterprise Liability, King: A Goals-Oriented
Approach…, Posner: Economic Analysis of Law |
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V. Products Liability |
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| 11/19/01 |
CB
540-556 |
V.A. Products Liability Introduction |
MacPherson
v. Buick, Escola v. Coca-Cola, |
| 11/20/01 |
CB
556-572 |
V.B. Manufacturing and Design Defects |
Soule
v. GM |
| 11/21/01 |
CB 572-581 |
V.B. Manufacturing and Design Defects (cont'd) |
Camacho
v. Honda |
| 11/26/01 |
CB
581-605 |
V.C. Warnings |
Hood
v. Ryobi, Edwards v. Basel Pharmaceuticals, Vassallo v.
Baxter Healthcare |
| 11/27/01 |
CB
605-614 |
V.D. Defenses |
GM
v. Sanchez |
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| 11/28/01 |
SD
7 |
Who
should pay for what |
Calabresi:
Some thoughts on risk distribution and the law of torts |
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VI. Damages |
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| 12/3/01 |
CB
679-697 |
VI.A. Compensatory Damages |
Seffert v.
LA Transit Lines, |
| 12/4/01 |
CB
697-717 |
VI.A. Compensatory Damages (cont'd) |
McDougald
v. Garber, Arambula v. Wells |
| 12/5/01 |
SD
8 |
Frameworks |
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| 12/10/01 |
CB
717-739 |
VI.B. Punitive Damages |
Taylor
v. Superior Court, BMW v. Gore |
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| 12/11/01 |
SD
9 |
VII.
Defamation Case Study |
Defamation Case Study
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| 12/12/01 |
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Wrap-up |
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