product liability & defamation Flashcards
manufacturing defect insert glass here
- unreasonably dangerous (unfit for its intended use/foreseeable misuse)
- defect existed when it left the manu control
design defect
- unreasonably dangerous
*benefit does not outweigh the inherent risk
warning defect
- adequate warning
2 non-obvious - but-for, proximate cause
defamation for public figures (6)
D efamatory
D amaging
O f and concerning
M alice*** must know what you said was false
F alse
P ublication
defamation for private figures (6)
D efamatory
D amaging ?
O f and concerning
M alice or negligent
F alse
P ublication
difference between public and private figures for defamation
for public, they have to know what they said was false
*for private it doesnt have to be damaging?
defenses to defamtion
judicial privilege
negligent in saying the statement
privacy
published public disclosure of private fact , has to be TRUE, and embarrassing
intrusion upon seclusion
voluntary enter or intrude
a space that one expects to be private
commercial appropriation
business tort
narrow, using someones name or likeness without their permission for a business purpose