Cases and Materials on Torts 12th Edition by Richard A. Epstein, ISBN-13: 978-1543804454

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Cases and Materials on Torts 12th Edition by Richard A. Epstein, ISBN-13: 978-1543804454

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• Publisher: ‎ Aspen Opco Llc; 12th Twelfth Edition, New ed. (February 24, 2020)
• Language: ‎ English
• 1336 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 1543804454
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1543804454

Cases and Materials on Torts preserves historical and conceptual continuity between the present and the past, while addressing the most significant contemporary controversies in such fast-moving areas like public nuisance, global warming, and product liability, with new litigation against internet providers. Toward these dual ends, Richard A. Epstein and Catherine M. Sharkey have retained in the Twelfth Edition the great older cases, both English and American, that have proved themselves time and again in the classroom, and which continue to exert great influence on the modern law. Our book also provides a rich exploration of the dominant corrective justice and law-and-economics approaches to tort law, as exemplified both in the retained and new cases and materials.

New to the Twelfth Edition:

• Extensive new treatment of public nuisance cases to address the profound expansion of the once-sleepy area of public nuisance law into the realms of the opioid crisis, toxic torts, and global warming
• Major reconsideration of who counts as a seller in the chain of distribution for goods sold online with product liability updates for various forms of e-commerce, such as Amazon’s liability for defective products sold on its site
• Updates to incorporate two major new Torts Restatements on Intentional Harms and Liability Insurance, The Reforms of the Michigan No-Fault Legislation
• Enhanced treatment of privacy in the era of “Big Data” to address trend of large data collectors like Facebook and Google to determine what is reasonable online, incorporating major privacy legislation such as California’s Consumer Privacy Act and the European GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
• Expansion of materials that address race and gender disparities in the setting of damages awards; and, in the realm of punitive damages innovative remedies directing some portion of the award to public interest groups

Table of Contents:

Cover Page

Front Matter

Editorial Advisors

Title Page

Copyright Page

About Aspen Publishing

Dedication

Summary of Contents

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Torts: List of Chapters

List of Abbreviations

Part One: Physical and Emotional Harms

1. Intentional Harms: The Prima Facie Case and Defenses

Section A. Introduction

Section B. Physical Harms

1. Trespass to Person and Land

Vosburg v. Putney

Dougherty v. Stepp

2. Defenses to Intentional Torts

a. Consensual Defenses

Mohr v. Williams

Canterbury v. Spence

Hudson v. Craft

b. Mental Disability

McGuire v. Almy

c. Self-Defense

Courvoisier v. Raymond

d. Defense of Property

Bird v. Holbrook

e. Necessity

Ploof v. Putnam

Vincent v. Lake Erie Transportation Co.

Thomson, The Trolley Problem

Section C. Emotional and Dignitary Harms

1. Assault

I. de S. and Wife v. W. de S.

Tuberville v. Savage

Blackstone, Commentaries

2. Offensive Battery

Alcorn v. Mitchell

3. False Imprisonment

Coblyn v. Kennedy’s, Inc.

4. The Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress: Extreme and Outrageous Conduct

Wilkinson v. Downton

2. Strict Liability and Negligence: Historic and Analytic Foundations

Section A. Introduction

Section B. The Formative Cases

The Thorns Case (Hull v. Orange)

Weaver v. Ward

Section C. The Forms of Action

1. The Significance of the Forms

2. Trespass and Case

Scott v. Shepherd

3. The Breakdown of the Forms of Action

Section D. Strict Liability and Negligence in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

Brown v. Kendall

Fletcher v. Rylands (1865)

Fletcher v. Rylands (1866)

Rylands v. Fletcher

Brown v. Collins

Powell v. Fall

Holmes, The Common Law

Section E. Strict Liability and Negligence in Modern Times

Stone v. Bolton

Bolton v. Stone

Hammontree v. Jenner

3. Negligence

Thayer, Public Wrong and Private Action

Green, Judge and Jury

Section A. Introduction

Section B. The Reasonable Person

Harry Kalven, Jr.

Vaughan v. Menlove

Holmes, The Common Law

Roberts v. Ring

Daniels v. Evans

Breunig v. American Family Insurance Co.

Fletcher v. City of Aberdeen

Denver & Rio Grande R.R. v. Peterson

Section C. Calculus of Risk

Blyth v. Birmingham Water Works

Terry, Negligence

Seavey, Negligence — Subjective or Objective?

Osborne v. Montgomery

Cooley v. Public Service Co.

United States v. Carroll Towing Co.

Ross, Settled Out of Court

Andrews v. United Airlines

Section D. Custom

Titus v. Bradford, B. & K. R. Co.

Mayhew v. Sullivan Mining Co.

The T.J. Hooper (1931)

The T.J. Hooper (1932)

Lama v. Borras

Murray v. UNMC Physicians

Schuck, Rethinking Informed Consent

Canterbury v. Spence

Section E. Statutes and Regulations

Anon.

Thayer, Public Wrong and Private Action

Osborne v. McMasters

Martin v. Herzog

Uhr v. East Greenbush Central School District

Section F. Judge and Jury

Holmes, The Common Law

Baltimore and Ohio R.R. v. Goodman

Pokora v. Wabash Ry.

Section G. Proof of Negligence

1. Methods of Proof

2. Res Ipsa Loquitur

Byrne v. Boadle

Colmenares Vivas v. Sun Alliance Insurance Co.

Ybarra v. Spangard

4. Plaintiff’s Conduct

Section A. Introduction

Section B. Contributory Negligence

1. 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

Gyerman v. United States Lines Co.

LeRoy Fibre Co. v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry.

Derheim v. N. Fiorito Co.

2. Last Clear Chance

Fuller v. Illinois Central R.R.

Section C. Imputed Contributory Negligence

Section D. Assumption of Risk

Lamson v. American Axe & Tool Co.

Murphy v. Steeplechase Amusement Co.

Dalury v. S-K-I Ltd.

Section E. Comparative Negligence

1. At Common Law

Lombard Laws, King Liutprand

Beach, Contributory Negligence

Prosser, Comparative Negligence

Li v. Yellow Cab Co. of California

2. By Legislation

Federal Employers’ Liability Act

New York

Pennsylvania

Wisconsin

5. Causation

Section A. Introduction

Section B. Cause in Fact

1. The “But For” Test

New York Central R.R. v. Grimstad

Zuchowicz v. United States

2. Joint and Several Liability and Multiple Causes

a. Joint and Several Liability

Union Stock Yards Co. of Omaha v. Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy R.R.

American Motorcycle Association v. Superior Court

b. Multiple Sufficient Causes

Kingston v. Chicago & N.W. Ry.

3. Indeterminate Causes

a. Alternative Liability

Summers v. Tice

b. Market Share Liability

Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories

c. Loss of Chance of Survival

Herskovits v. Group Health Cooperative

4. Proof of Factual Causation

Section C. Proximate Cause (Herein of Duty)

1. Physical Injury

Bacon, The Elements of the Common Lawes of England

Street, Foundations of Legal Liability

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.

Overseas Tankship (U.K.) Ltd. v. Morts Dock & Engineering Co., Ltd. (Wagon Mound (No. 1))

Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R.

Marshall v. Nugent

Virden v. Betts & Beer Construction Company

Hebert v. Enos

2. Emotional Distress

Mitchell v. Rochester Ry.

Dillon v. Legg

6. Affirmative Duties

Section A. Introduction

Section B. The Duty to Rescue

Luke 10:30-37 (King James Translation)

Buch v. Amory Manufacturing Co.

Hurley v. Eddingfield

Bohlen, The Moral Duty to Aid Others as a Basis of Tort Liability

Ames, Law and Morals

Epstein, A Theory of Strict Liability

Posner, Epstein’s Tort Theory: A Critique

Fletcher, Law and Morality: A Kantian Perspective

Bender, An Overview of Feminist Torts Scholarship

Montgomery v. National Convoy & Trucking Co.

Section C. Duties of Owners and Occupiers

Robert Addie & Sons (Collieries), Ltd. v. Dumbreck

Rowland v. Christian

Section D. Gratuitous Undertakings

Coggs v. Bernard

Erie Railroad Co. v. Stewart

Moch Co. v. Rensselaer Water Co.

Section E. Special Relationships

Kline v. 1500 Massachusetts Avenue Apartment Corp.

Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California

7. Strict Liability

Section A. Introduction

Section B. Trespass to Chattels and Conversion

1. Trespass to Chattels

Intel Corp. v. Hamidi

2. Conversion

Poggi v. Scott

Moore v. Regents of the University of California

Section C. Animals

Gehrts v. Batteen

Section D. Ultrahazardous or Abnormally Dangerous Activities

Spano v. Perini Corp.

Indiana Harbor Belt R.R. v. American Cyanamid Co.

Section E. Nuisance

1. Private Nuisance

Vogel v. Grant-Lafayette Electric Cooperative

Michalson v. Nutting

Fontainebleau Hotel Corp. v. Forty-Five Twenty-Five, Inc.

Rogers v. Elliott

Ensign v. Walls

Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co.

2. Public Nuisance

Anonymous

Burgess v. M/ V Tamano

City of Oakland v. BP P.L.C.

Section F. Vicarious Liability

Ira S. Bushey & Sons, Inc. v. United States

Saleem v. Corporate Transportation Group Ltd.

8. Products Liability

Section A. Introduction

Section B. Exposition

Winterbottom v. Wright

MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co.

Escola v. Coca Cola Bottling Co. of Fresno

Section C. The Restatements

1. A Tale of Two Texts

Restatement (Second) of Torts §402A

Restatement (Third) of Torts: Products Liability §§1-2

2. The Theory of Products Liability: Tort or Contract

Casa Clara Condominium Ass’n, Inc. v. Charley Toppino & Sons, Inc.

3. Proper Defendants Under Section 402A

Oberdorf v. Amazon.com Inc.

Section D. Product Defects

1. Manufacturing Defects

Speller v. Sears, Roebuck and Co.

2. Design Defects

Campo v. Scofield

2 Harper and James, Torts §28.5

Wade, On the Nature of Strict Tort Liability for Products

a. Development of the Negligence Test

Volkswagen of America, Inc. v. Young

b. Consumer Expectations versus Risk-Utility Tests

Barker v. Lull Engineering Co.

c. Third Restatement and the Alternative Design Test

3. The Duty to Warn

MacDonald v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp.

Vassallo v. Baxter Healthcare Corp.

Hood v. Ryobi America Corp.

Air & Liquid Sys. Corp. v. DeVries

Section E. Plaintiff’s Conduct

Daly v. General Motors Corp.

Section F. Federal Preemption

Geier v. American Honda Motor Co.

Wyeth v. Levine

9. Damages

Sullivan v. Old Colony Street Ry.

Zibbell v. Southern Pacific Co.

Section A. Introduction

Section B. Recoverable Elements of Damages

1. Pain and Suffering

McDougald v. Garber

2. Economic Losses

O’Shea v. Riverway Towing Co.

Duncan v. Kansas City Southern Railway

Section C. Wrongful Death and Loss of Consortium

1. Wrongful Death

a. History

b. Measure of Damages

2. Survival of Personal Injury Actions

3. Actions for Loss of Consortium

a. History

b. Parents and Children

c. Nontraditional Families

d. Damages in Consortium Cases

Section D. Punitive Damages

Kemezy v. Peters

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell

Section E. Litigation Financing

1. Contingent Fees

2. Class Actions

3. Fee Shifting

4. Sale of Tort Claims

5. Litigation Insurance

6. Alternative Litigation Financing

Section F. Collateral Benefits

Harding v. Town of Townshend

10. Tort Extensions: Insurance and No-Fault Systems

Section A. Introduction

Section B. Liability Insurance

1. Automobile and Other Basic Lines of Insurance

a. The March to Compulsory Insurance

b. The Distinctive Provisions of the Automobile Insurance Contract

i. The Omnibus Clause

ii. “Drive the Other Car” Clauses

iii. Uninsured Motorist Coverage

iv. Medical Payments

c. Key Provisions of the Standard Insurance Contract

Commercial General Liability Coverage Form

i. Misrepresentation and Nondisclosure

ii. Notice and Cooperation

iii. The Duty to Defend

iv. The Obligation to Settle in Good Faith

Crisci v. Security Insurance Co.

Dimmitt Chevrolet, Inc. v. Southeastern Fidelity Insurance Corp.

2. Cumulative Trauma Cases

Section C. The No-Fault Systems

1. Workers’ Compensation

a. Historical Origins

b. The Scope of Coverage: “Arising Out of and in the Course of Employment”

Clodgo v. Rentavision, Inc.

Wilson v. Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board

c. Benefits Under the Workers’ Compensation Statutes

d. Exclusive Remedy

Rainer v. Union Carbide Corp.

2. Automobile No-Fault Insurance

a. The Basic Reform Proposal

American Bar Association, Special Committee on Automobile Insurance Legislation, Why the Statistical Studies Critical of the Fault System Are Flawed

Epstein, Automobile No-Fault Plans: A Second Look at First Principles

b. Constitutionality

c. The Implementation of Automobile No-Fault Plans

d. The 2019 Michigan No-Fault Law Reforms

3. No-Fault Insurance for Medical and Product Injuries

Section D. The 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund

Section E. The New Zealand Plan

Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry, Compensation for Personal Injury in New Zealand

Accident Compensation: Options for Reform

Part Two: Torts against Nonphysical Interests

11. Defamation

Section A. Introduction

Section B.Publication

Mims v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

Firth v. State of New York

Blumenthal v. Drudge

Section C. False or Defamatory Statements

Parmiter v. Coupland

Muzikowski v. Paramount Pictures Corp.

Wilkow v. Forbes, Inc.

Section D. Libel and Slander

Varian Medical Systems, Inc. v. Delfino

Section E. Basis of Liability: Intention, Negligence, and Strict Liability in Defamation

E. Hulton & Co. v. Jones

Section F. Damages

1. Special Damages

Terwilliger v. Wands

Ellsworth v. Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, Inc.

2. General Damages

McCormick, Damages

Faulk v. Aware, Inc. (1962)

Faulk v. Aware, Inc. (1963)

3. Other Remedies

a. Injunctions

b. Retraction

c. Reply Statutes

d. Declaratory Relief and “Libel Tourism”

Section G. Nonconstitutional Defenses

1. Truth

Auvil v. CBS 60 Minutes

2. Privileges in the Private Sphere

Watt v. Longsdon

3. Privileges in the Public Sphere

a. Legal Proceedings and Reports Thereon

Kennedy v. Cannon

b. Reports of Public Proceedings or Meetings

Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. v. Jacobson

c. Fair Comment: Artistic and Literary Criticism

Veeder, Freedom of Public Discussion

Section H. Constitutional Privileges

1. Public Officials and Public Figures

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan

Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts

2. Private Parties

Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.

Obsidian Finance Group, LLC v. Cox

12. Privacy

Section A. Introduction

Section B. Historical Background

Warren & Brandeis, The Right to Privacy

Prosser, Privacy

Kalven, Privacy in the Tort Law — Were Warren and Brandeis Wrong?

Prosser, Privacy

Section C. Intrusion Upon Seclusion

Nader v. General Motors Corp.

Boring v. Google Inc.

Desnick v. American Broadcasting Co., Inc.

Section D. Public Disclosure of Embarrassing Private Facts

Sidis v. F-R Publishing Corp.

Haynes v. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn

Section E. False Light

Time, Inc. v. Hill

Section F. Commercial Appropriation of Plaintiff’s Name or Likeness, or the Right of Publicity

In re NCAA Student-Athlete Name and Likeness Litigation

Factors Etc., Inc. v. Pro Arts, Inc.

13. Misrepresentation

Section A. Introduction

Section B. Fraud

Pasley v. Freeman

Vulcan Metals Co. v. Simmons Manufacturing Co.

Swinton v. Whitinsville Savings Bank

Laidlaw v. Organ

Edgington v. Fitzmaurice

BV Nederlandse Industrie Van Eiprodukten v. Rembrandt Enterprises, Inc.

Laborers Local 17 Health and Benefit Fund v. Philip Morris, Inc.

Section C. Negligent Misrepresentation

Ultramares Corp. v. Touche

14. Economic Harms

Section A. Introduction

Section B. Inducement of Breach of Contract

The Statute of Labourers (1351)

Lumley v. Gye

Asahi Kasei Pharma Corp. v. Actelion Ltd.

Section C. Intentional Interference with Prospective Advantage

Tarleton v. M’Gawley

Section D. Negligent Interference with Economic Relationships

People Express Airlines, Inc. v. Consolidated Rail Corp.

Southern California Gas Co. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County

Section E. Unfair Competition

Mogul Steamship Co. v. McGregor, Gow & Co.

International News Service v. Associated Press

The National Basketball Association v. Motorola, Inc.

Barclays Capital Inc. v. Theflyonthewall.com

Ely-Norris Safe Co. v. Mosler Safe Co.

Mosler Safe Co. v. Ely-Norris Safe Co.

15. Tort Immunities

Section A. Introduction

Section B. Domestic or Intrafamily Immunities

1. Parent and Child

a. Suits Between Parent and Child

b. Third-Party Actions

2. Spouses

Section C. Charitable Immunity

Section D. Municipal Corporations

1. At Common Law

2. By Statute

745 Ill. Comp. Stat. (2019)

3. Under the Constitution

Section E. Sovereign Immunity

Federal Tort Claims Act §§2671-2680

Berkovitz v. United States

Section F. Official Immunity

Clinton v. Jones

Table of Cases

Table of Restatement Sections

Table of Secondary Authorities

Index

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Clear organizational framework of the book
• Important lines of cases that help understand legal reasoning and the evolution of precedent
• Inclusion of key academic commentary and elaboration of central intellectual disputes over the nature and function of the tort law
• Ability to pick and choose modules of interest – such as defamation, privacy, and economic harms–which are of increasing importance in real world of tort litigation
• Extensive notes with topic headlines that elaborate basic concepts and extend into the most complex contemporary issues facing courts
• Great attention given to cutting edge tort developments

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