AL Bar Torts 2

Question 1

A landowner in Alabama owes the highest duty of care to which category of entrant?

Accepted Answer

Invitees

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Licensees

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Trespassers

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Social guests

Question 2

Res ipsa loquitur allows an inference of negligence when the type of accident ordinarily does not occur without negligence, the defendant had exclusive control, and:

Accepted Answer

The plaintiff did not contribute to the accident

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The plaintiff suffered severe injuries

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Expert testimony confirms negligence

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The accident occurred on defendant's property

Question 3

Proximate cause in negligence limits liability by requiring that the plaintiff's injury be:

Accepted Answer

A foreseeable type of harm from the defendant's breach

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Directly caused without intervening events

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The most serious possible consequence of the breach

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Witnessed by third parties

Question 4

Under the doctrine of respondeat superior, an employer is vicariously liable for the torts of an employee committed:

Accepted Answer

Within the scope of the employee's employment

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At any time if the employee used employer's equipment

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Against other employees only

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Only if the employer knew of the risk

Question 5

Nuisance requires interference with the plaintiff's use and enjoyment of land that is:

Accepted Answer

Substantial and unreasonable

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Intentional and trivial

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Physical and permanent

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Caused by negligence only

Question 6

The tort of false imprisonment requires that the defendant's conduct:

Accepted Answer

Intentionally confine the plaintiff to a bounded area without consent or legal authority

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Physically restrain the plaintiff in a locked space

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Cause the plaintiff to fear physical harm

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Be observed by witnesses