famous intentional tort law cases

Would a reasonably prudent dog batter a postal worker, negligently knock over a vase with a wagging tail or trespass on property to urinate or defecate? Defendant did have a slim statutory leg to stand on. Guess what saved the life of Mrs. P’s closest living relative? Don’t want to accept iTune’s or Facebook’s terms of service? This is an opinion to be admired as much for its lucidity as its colorful take on the events. A student of mine posted this pic on Facebook of “Cardozo’s Pub” in Chicago. It can be stated as an incontrovertible legal proposition that anyone attending a dinner dance has the inalienable right to expect that, if asparagus is to be served, it will be served on the dinner table and not on the dance floor. The court reminisced fondly about the history of fish dishes, recounted several recipes for the same, and included statements such as “we consider that the joys of life in New England include the ready availability of fresh fish chowder.”, The court went so far as to note that “[a] namesake of the plaintiff, Daniel Webster, had a recipe for fish chowder which has survived into a number of modern cookbooks and in which the removal of fish bones is not mentioned at all.”. 99 (1928), is a leading case in American tort law on the question of liability to an unforeseeable plaintiff. If unreasonable, the defendant is liable for negligence and must pay damages. He then used his trailer to tow a box van to his backyard so that guests had a target to shoot. 2002). In preparation, Yaney used his [Yaney] Motorsports truck to haul the refrigerator from Vantilburg’s home to his property. See if you can find it. As with many of the judicial opinions posted on Lawhaha.com, brief excerpts don’t do this case justice. Cardozo wrote the famous majority opinion in Palsgraf. But pro-tort reform accounts of the case omit two critical facts. I apologize for the gruesome picture, but a large part of the misunderstanding of this case comes from people not appreciating that Ms. Liebeck suffered extremely severe injuries. They left food in the cupboard behind the table.”, If true, this may answer one of the questions students often have about the case. What rules govern the determination of the remoteness of dam-ages Refer to Scott V. Shepherd and The Wagon Mound Case. For the completely true fake inside story behind these opinions, check out Palsgraf Uncovered). Here’s a taste from the opening paragraphs (some paragraph breaks inserted): Long after the public spotlight has moved on in search of fresh intrigue, the lawyers remain. An assault takes place when one person acts intentionally in a way that causes another person to reasonably apprehend (or fear) an immediate harmful or offensive contact. Playdon (chuckling): I smile—I never envisioned thirty years ago that I’d have the opportunity …. But one of the guests  surprised at least one person (the plaintiff, allegedly) when he decided to light up–literally–the party by shooting bottle rockets from … er, I’d rather let the Complaint explain it: 8. Talk about creative lawyering. I won’t spoil the mystery. It appears that a man, whose identity it would be indelicate to divulge, was feloniously relieved of his portable goods by two nondescript highwaymen in an alley near 26th Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan; they induced him to relinquish his possessions by a strong argument ad hominem couched in the convincing cant of the criminal and pressed at the point of a most persuasive pistol. 1979). The appellate court answered affirmatively. This is referred to as an intentional tort. But in a lawsuit against Hanes, the underwear maker, he alleged his “dream trip” went awry due to allegedly defective briefs which “gaped open and acted like a sand belt on my privates,” causing injury. U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski faced an appeal in a defamation suit filed by former lounge-singer Gennifer Flowers against Hillary Rodham Clinton, James Carville and George Stephanopoulos. Why? This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. The Consumer Product Safety Commission’s original notice of the ban “urge[d] consumers to discard or destroy all lawn darts immediately” and instructed them to call the Commission’s hotline if they find any still for sale. Although several years old, Professor Jonathan Turley’s USA Today article exposing phony tort cases remains must-reading for anyone concerned about the tort reform movement. Insurance expert, stand-up comic, and friend of Lawhaha.com, Randy Maniloff, penned an interesting article in his latest issue of Coverage Opinions about whether people who get frightened at Halloween haunted houses, with resulting injury, can sue. Jim says his father bought out the other two neighbors and handed the property down to him. Here’s a compendium of Judge Goettel’s fun canine puns: “In this dog eat dog world, anything is fair game for litigation in the federal courts.”, “As compensation for her injuries, plaintiff seeks to take a bite out of the defendants’ pocketbooks.”, “[The plaintiff], now an Episcopal priest with her own ministry, obviously has a bone to pick as her injuries required substantial medical care, and Rocky is clearly in the doghouse.”, “In dogged pursuit of damages for her trauma, she filed this suit ….”, “Hounded by Connecticut’s [dog-bite statute] ….”, “The [individual defendants] do not deny that they were keeping Rocky who apparently was not licensed to anyone but had a nose for trouble.”, “Plaintiff’s analysis is essentially the tail wagging the dog.”, “Rocky’s having access to common areas, without more evidence indicating an intent to give refuge to the dog or to control the dog’s activities on the part of the School is not a sufficient basis to collar the Divinity School.”. Now Chris Fergus, a professor in Australia, sends along this photo showing another coffee cup maker having a grand old time with the case by including a warning on its cups stating, “Avoid Pouring on Crotch Area.”  I don’t speak French, but  can guess the French version amounts to something like “Don’t Pour It on Your Oolala.”  Chris said he received the photo from one of his students and is unsure where it originated. All sorts of duties are imposed on property owners to maintain a safe premises. Not sure? The back of the picture is stamped with “Tattoo & Photo by Sherry Sears, Creative Images, Des Moines, IA.” So if you want to impress your professors and university’s counseling department, book a ticket to Des Moines. Upon information and belief, the lack of a railing had existed for at least several months, if not years, before the incident. But the Louisiana Supreme Court reversed. 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Leave it to insurance coverage guru/legal humorist Randy Maniloff to track down the most interesting cases for his monthly publication, Coverage Opinions. Keep reading to learn more about intentional torts and call us at (504) 475-2455 for any legal assistance you may need. The legal dispute is an old one: To what extent is food containing a harmful ingredient a defective product when the substance is a natural one as opposed to a foreign one? TOP 10 LANDMARK JUDGEMENTS OF LAW OF TORTS. The plaintiff presented several police officers as witnesses who testified that plaintiffs’ psychic abilities had helped them solve cases. Welcome to 1L torts class! In Kirkham v. Will, an Illinois intermediate appellate court held that, in deciding whether the defense of provocation applied in a dog-bite case, the appropriate test to apply was the “reasonable dog” standard; that is, how a reasonable dog would have reacted to the plaintiff’s presence under similar circumstances. A guy sued his long-time girlfriend (ex-girlfriend?) Then-Commissioner Anne Graham explained the Commission’s risk-utility analysis (which my current first-year students will recognize as Judge Hand’s famous formula for negligence): What limited recreational value lawn darts may have is far outweighed by the number of serious injuries and unnecessary deaths. In excusing the chauffeur from liability for jumping out of the moving vehicle, Carlin said: If the philosophic Horatio and the martial companions of his watch were ‘distilled almost to jelly with the act of fear’ when they beheld ‘in the dead vast and middle of night’ the disembodied spirit of Hamlet’s father stalk majestically by ‘with a countenance more in sorrow than in anger,’ was not the chauffeur, though unacquainted with the example of these eminent men-at-arms more amply justified in his fearsome reactions when he was more palpably confronted by a thing of flesh and blood bearing in its hand an engine of destruction which depended for its lethal purpose upon the quiver of a hair. As proof, she followed up and sent this photograph to my student, who entrusted it to me. The student arranged for me to interview “Jim,” her boyfriend’s father. The town posted the news on its Facebook page, generously taking responsibility for the incident: “A poor decision was made … to ‘dry the field quicker’ and 24 gallons of gasoline was poured and set on fire.”. The artist said the young man above came into her tattoo parlor with the accompanying picture of Judge Hand (the picture is from the famous Prosser, Wade & Schwartz Torts casebook used at 124 law schools) and asked to have Judge Hand, wearing a jester cap, tattooed on his arm. The House of Lords held that the manufacturer of the bottle was responsible for his negligence towards the plaintiff. Psychiatric injury Chapter 6. She is now in critical condition. Complaining that, “[u]nder the majority’s opinion, it’s now a tort for advertisers to remind the public of a celebrity,” Kozinski excoriated the court for over-extending intellectual property rights in an opinion jammed full of pop culture references. But does this “Halloween rule” apply to haunted houses? CASES FROM THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 21, 2018. The general category of the Law of Obligations includes Torts Law, Unjust Enrichment Law, and Restitution Law, besides Contracts Law. In December, 1996, Ms. McCann and two of her children were shopping at the Maine Wal-Mart store. Defendant Hughes placed a bottle rocket in his anus, ignited the fuse, but instead of launching, the bottle rocket blew up in Defendant’s rectum, and this startled plaintiff and caused him to jump back, at which time he fell off of the ATO deck, and he became lodged between the deck and an air conditioner unit adjacent to the deck. Now that the suit has been wrapped up, perhaps Poopi should consult independent counsel about the possibility of pursuing emotional distress of having to go through life named “Poopi.”. Was it foreseeable to the fraternity that an intoxicated fraternity member would ignite fireworks in such a bizarre manner and cause a startled bystander to fall off the deck? • And my personal favorite, a Mr. Grazinski, who won more than $1,750,000 against Winnebago when the RV he was driving went off the road after he put it on cruise control at 70 mph to go into the back to fix a cup of coffee. “Eerily,” as Randy notes, all five cases are from Louisiana. The gap resulted in his penis protruding from his underwear, whereupon the edges of the opening abraded his penis like “sandpaper belts.” …, Under cross examination plaintiff admitted he never examined his penis to assess the problem and/or treat the problem. He researches and provides citations to everything. Torts include negligence cases and personal injury. — White v. Samsung Elec. A while back I posted a picture of a coffee cup, reportedly from Canada, that made fun of U.S. tort law and, indirectly, poor Stella Liebeck, the plaintiff in the infamous McDonald’s coffee spill.   Yesterday I taught my first Torts class of the year and, as always, we began with Garratt v. Dailey, 279 P.2d 1091 (Wash. 1955), where an elderly woman sued a five-year-old boy for battery for pulling a chair out from under her as she was (allegedly) trying to sit in it. 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Guests stood behind tables fifty meters away from where the refrigerator was located. This case established the legal doctrine of res ipsa loquitur. A less noticed, but just as fun pop culture-laden opinion was his dissent to an order denying rehearing en banc in White v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a case where the Ninth Circuit upheld a “right of publicity” claim by former game show hostess Vanna White against Samsung for using a robot resembling her game show persona in a television commercial. –Blank-Greer v. Tannerite Sports, LLC, No. No known connection exists between this Chicago pub and the real Judge Cardozo. 9. Carlin apparently was a learned Shakespeare fan. He raised “Act of God” as a defense and also asserted the plaintiff assumed the risk of the collision and was contributorily negligent. In dissent, Musmanno skewered the majority for what he saw as an unjust result, closing his opinion by stating that the majority’s approach “is unsupportable in law, logic, and elementary justice – and I shall continue to dissent from it until the cows come home.”. 5. This legal doctrine means that the “thing speaks for itself,” which means that plaintiffs may recover for torts that have been obviously caused by the negligence of another person or business. It might be on the bar exam. Palsgraf, studied by every first-year law student, is the improbable tale of a set of scales allegedly knocked on top of the plaintiff, Mrs. Helen Palsgraf, as a result of an explosion that occurred when a man running to catch a train dropped a package of fireworks while being helped onto the train by railroad employees. Flowers claims that during the 1992 campaign and in later political memoirs and interviews, Carville and Stephanopoulos defamed her and painted her in a false light by claiming that she had lied in her story to the Star and “doctored” the tape-recorded phone calls. Wow! As many a law student knows, there are reported cases, and reported cases, the latter being those cases which have not only been decided by the highest courts in the land, but which have fundamentally shifted the legal landscape, shaped societal changes and the way in which family law cases are decided. You'll spend the next year reading many cases about old ladies falling down, whether it's at their own homes, on a railroad platform, or in a slippery parking lot. That’s one of the things we most appreciate about him. Sandy called him a pervert and her mother berated him. Flowers charges that said machine destroyed her reputation by painting her as a fraud and a liar after she dis-closed her affair with Bill Clinton. This is a must-read opinion for all products liability lawyers and anyone looking for a good fish-chowder recipe. A previous post discussed this issue, but check this out. Did you know that each time you click “Accept” on an online click-thru agreement, you’ve bound yourself to a legal contract? — Bosley v. Andrews, 142 A. The complaint alleges that many of the participants consumed intoxicating beverages. — Schwartz v. Warwick-Philadelphia Corp., 226 A.2d 484, 485–87, 488 (Pa. 1967). (Caveat: I have no way to confirm the following tidbits Jim shared with me, so take them as one observer’s memory of events that happened several decades ago). [14] Religious Societies: It is not contributory negligence to bow one’s head while praying in church, whether in the pew or in the aisle. 1986). Give them helmets, maybe even put flashlights on them, or scare them outside where they can run into the cushy-walls of cornfield mazes. Plaintiff testified he believed sand that he picked up in his swim trunks while enjoying the Hawaiian surf had irritated his penis. But on Halloween at trick-or-treat time, that duty is modified. Turns out the experiences of Wile E. Coyote and Tom and Jerry also happen to ordinary people, and Randy cites the cases to prove it. The main issue was whether the Yale Divinity School could be held strictly liable under the Connecticut dog-bite statute as a “keeper” of the dean’s offending canine, Rocky, a Labrador, because the dog was permitted to roam free in common areas of the divinity school residences and chapel. COMMON LAW ASSAULT AND BATTERY. Here, a passenger bus was overloaded and yet the conductor invited passengers on the roof of the bus to travel. The big case which expanded this area of the law is also a … Poopi the poodle and her owners sued their veterinarian after Poopi underwent anesthesia for teeth cleaning and woke up with a three-inch scar on her abdomen. — Gibson v. Donahue, 772 N.E. These cookies do not store any personal information. He struck up a conversation with a tattoo artist in a bar. Elements of an Intentional Tort Claim It is important to know what makes up an intentional tort case, because these cases are much different from workplace negligence cases. Here (scroll down to “Public Perceptions: The McDonald’s Coffee Spill”) and here are a couple accounts of the facts. (d) Pour 24 gallons of gasoline on the field and set the damn thing on fire. A large guy (280-90 pounds) ironically won a one-week trip to Hawaii as a reward for selling more than $20,000 in diet products. We are not inclined to tamper with age old recipes by any amendment reflecting the plaintiff’s view of the effect of the Uniform Commercial Code upon them. “Well, they were a little strange,” he said. In one case, a startled plaintiff in a pitch-dark house turned to run and ran smack into a brick wall. — Mark Fass, Palsgraf Railroad Injury Proximate Cause of Family Curse?, New York Law Journal, Dec. 10, 2004. Byrne v. Boadle is another established case in the field of negligence law. 12. Read on for our pick of famous law cases in the UK that left an impression on the public for the above reasons. Read Randy’s full account of the case, which addressed the issue of whether the party host was acting in the scope of employment with respect to insurance coverage from his business. The Brineys set the shotgun trap because the abandoned house had been repeatedly broken into. Good old Mrs. Palsgraf. There are numerous alternatives to lawn darts, and I would urge adults who have lawn darts to throw them away now. Categories: the standard of reasonable care under the circumstances was inappropriate for consensual sex-physical injury cases advantage of website! 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