EXAM 1 BLAW 3430 UNT ACTUAL QUESTIONS

EXAM 1 BLAW 3430 UNT (ACTUAL / ) QUESTIONS &

VERIFIED ANSWERS

Battery - ---Answers---Intentional infliction of harmful or offensive bodily contact

Assault - ---Answers---Threat or use of force on another that causes person to have a reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact

False imprisonment - ---Answers---Intentionally confining a person against her will within fixed boundaries if the person is conscious of the confinement or harmed by it

Intentional infliction of emotional distress - ---Answers--- Recklessly causing another person severe emotional distress through one's extreme or outrageous acts

Defamation - ---Answers---(Libel is written, Slander is oral) Knowingly harming the reputation of another by making a false statement to a third person. If public figure, defendant must act with actual malice

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Slander per se - ---Answers---Plaintif has loathsome disease, committed unlawful acts in business, committed a crime, is an unchaste married woman

Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) - ---Answers--- Grants immunity to ISP's

Invasion of privacy - ---Answers---An unjustified exploitation of one's personality or intrusion into one's person activities

Appropriation - ---Answers---The use of another's likeness for one's own benefit

Intrusion - ---Answers---An offensive, intentional interference with a person's seclusion or private affairs

Fraud - ---Answers---A knowing misrepresentation of the truth or concealment of a material fact to induce another to act to his or her detriment

Tortious Interference - ---Answers---Interference with contraction relations or with prospective relations

Trespass - ---Answers---Wrongful entry on another's real property

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