IU - Sellers - L201 Torts (Final) Exam
Questions and All Correct Answers
2025-2026 Updated.
Tort - Answer a civil wrong that is not a breach of contract
The 4 types of wrongness - Answer intent, recklessness, Negligence, and strict liability
Intent - Answer desire to cause a certain consequence
Recklessness - Answer conscious indifference to a known and substantial risk of harm created
by one's behavior
negligence - Answer failure to reasonably care and cause damages as a consequence
We all have a duty to act reasonably. If you breach that duty, you are negligent.
Strict Liability - Answer The defendant is liable no matter what, whether he/she acted
negligently, recklessly or intentionally
Two types of damages - Answer Compensatory and punitive
type of damage usually received in tort cases - Answer Compensatory
Compensatory damages - Answer Money awarded to victim to cover the expenses casued by
the harmful action
Punitive damages - Answer INTENDED To punish flagrant wrongdoers and to deter them and
others from committing such acts again in the future
Mathias Case - Answer Bedbugs in motel
asked for puntive and compensatory damages
, battery - Answer is the intentional and harmful or offensive touching of someone without
their consent
Assault - Answer INTENT to touch someone or cause them harm
Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress - Answer intentionally going beyond decency to
cause emotional stress on someone. Behavior that is so outrageous in character, so extreme, as
to go beyond all bounds of decency
Durham Vs McDonald's case - Answer Durham is the employee (16 yrs old)
Rejected request to take his anti-seizure medicine 3 times by supervisor
Durham "left crying after work and did not return"
Durham lost because the act was "not extreme or sever"
false imprisonment - Answer INTENTIONAL confinement of another person, even if it was just
for a short amount of time
Two types of defamation - Answer Libel and Slander
Libel - Answer written or printed defamation of someone or something
radio, social media, or tv are normally "libel defamation"
Slander - Answer Verbal defamation
Very difficult for a public figure to win a defamation case because of First Amendment
What is a complete defense in defamation cases - Answer The truth
T/F
If you repeat a defamation phrase, citing the source as well, you can be held liable - Answer
True
Four types of invasion of privacy - Answer Intrusion of solitude or seclusion
Public Disclosure of private facts
Questions and All Correct Answers
2025-2026 Updated.
Tort - Answer a civil wrong that is not a breach of contract
The 4 types of wrongness - Answer intent, recklessness, Negligence, and strict liability
Intent - Answer desire to cause a certain consequence
Recklessness - Answer conscious indifference to a known and substantial risk of harm created
by one's behavior
negligence - Answer failure to reasonably care and cause damages as a consequence
We all have a duty to act reasonably. If you breach that duty, you are negligent.
Strict Liability - Answer The defendant is liable no matter what, whether he/she acted
negligently, recklessly or intentionally
Two types of damages - Answer Compensatory and punitive
type of damage usually received in tort cases - Answer Compensatory
Compensatory damages - Answer Money awarded to victim to cover the expenses casued by
the harmful action
Punitive damages - Answer INTENDED To punish flagrant wrongdoers and to deter them and
others from committing such acts again in the future
Mathias Case - Answer Bedbugs in motel
asked for puntive and compensatory damages
, battery - Answer is the intentional and harmful or offensive touching of someone without
their consent
Assault - Answer INTENT to touch someone or cause them harm
Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress - Answer intentionally going beyond decency to
cause emotional stress on someone. Behavior that is so outrageous in character, so extreme, as
to go beyond all bounds of decency
Durham Vs McDonald's case - Answer Durham is the employee (16 yrs old)
Rejected request to take his anti-seizure medicine 3 times by supervisor
Durham "left crying after work and did not return"
Durham lost because the act was "not extreme or sever"
false imprisonment - Answer INTENTIONAL confinement of another person, even if it was just
for a short amount of time
Two types of defamation - Answer Libel and Slander
Libel - Answer written or printed defamation of someone or something
radio, social media, or tv are normally "libel defamation"
Slander - Answer Verbal defamation
Very difficult for a public figure to win a defamation case because of First Amendment
What is a complete defense in defamation cases - Answer The truth
T/F
If you repeat a defamation phrase, citing the source as well, you can be held liable - Answer
True
Four types of invasion of privacy - Answer Intrusion of solitude or seclusion
Public Disclosure of private facts
