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| designed to compensate those who have suffered a loss or injury due to another person's wrongful act |
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| a requirement of intentional torts |
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| intentional torts against persons, business torts, intentional torts against property |
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| Types of intentional torts |
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| harmful or offensive contact, no actual damages required |
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| reasonable apprehension of immediate battery, no proof or harm required |
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| intentional confinement or restraint of another person's activities without justification |
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| intentional infliction of emotional distress |
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| an act of extreme and outrageous conduct, must result in severe emotional distress |
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| a misrepresentation of material facts or conditions with knowledge that they are false or with reckless disregard for the truth |
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| wrongfully hurting a person's reputation. |
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| to successfully sue, a person must have a reasonable expectation of privacy, and the invasion must be highly offensive |
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| wrongful interference with a contractual relationship, wrongful interference with a business relationship |
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| 2 types of business torts |
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| trespass to land, conversion, disparagement of property |
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| 3 intentional torts against privacy |
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| occurs when a person enters onto, above or below the surface of land, causes anything to enter into the land, or permits anything to remain on it |
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| conversion (larsony in PA) |
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| any act that deprives an owner of personal property without that owner's permission and without just cause |
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| disparagement of property |
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| occurs when economically injurious falsehoods are made about another's product or property rather than about another's reputation |
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