TORTS SYLLABUS
Fall 2009 - Professor Johnson (Updated 10/20/09)
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August 25
Development of Liability Based Upon Fault
Read pp. 1-10
August 26
Development of Liability Based Upon
Fault (cont.)
Pages 10-16
August 27
Intent
Pages 17-23
August 28
Intent
Pages 23-29
September 1
Battery
Pages 29-37
CALI Exercises are available for
Battery and Assault
September 2
Assault; False Imprisonment
Pages 37-42
Website
CALI Exercise is available for
False Imprisonment
September 3
False Imprisonment (cont.); Intentional
Infliction of Emotional Distress
Pages 42-48; Pages 50-54
September 4
Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
(cont.)
Pages 54- 66
CALI Exercise is available for
Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
September 8
Trespass to Land
Pages 66- 72
September 9
Trespass to Land (cont.); Trespass to Chattels
72-81
Websites
September 10
Privileges: Consent
91-99
September 11
Privileges: Consent; Self-Defense; Defense
of Others
Pages 99-103; Skim 103-107
September 15
Defense of property; Recovery of property
Pages 107-118
Website
September 16
Necessity, Authority of Law, Discipline,
Justification
Pages 118-130
CALI Exercise available on Summary
of Intentional Torts
September 17
Negligence: Introduction
Pages 131-141
September 18
Negligence: Introduction; Negligence: The
Reasonable Person
Pages 141-150
September 22
Negligence: The Reasonable Person
Pages 150-157
September 23
Negligence: The Reasonable Person
Pages 157-168
September 24
Negligence: The Reasonable Person
Pages 168-181
September 25
Negligence: The Reasonable Person
Pages 181-197
CALI Exercises available on the
Reasonable Person, Standard of Care for Professionals, and
Children and Others of Diminished Capacity
September 29
Negligence: Rule of Law; Violation of a
Statute
Pages 200-215
September 30
Negligence: Violation of a Statute (cont.)
Pages 215-224
October 1
Negligence: Violation of a Statute (cont.);
Proof of Negligence: Circumstantial Evidence
Pages 224-237
October 2
Proof of Negligence: Res Ipsa Loquitor
Pages 237-250
CALI Exercise available on Res
Ipsa Loquitor
October 6
Res Ipsa Loquitor (cont.); Causation in
Fact
Pages 250-258; 259-262
October 7
Causation in Fact (cont.)
Pages 262-270
October 8
Causation in Fact (cont.)
Pages 270-282
October 9
Causation in Fact: Concurrent Causes; Multiple
Causes
Pages 282-292
October 13
Proximate Cause
Pages 293-308
October 14
Proximate Cause
Pages 308-325
Weblink
- Palsgraf
October 15
Proximate Cause: Intervening Causes
Pages 325-335
October 16
Proximate Cause: Intervening Causes
Pages 335-344
Proximate Cause: Public Policy
Pages 344-349
CALI Exercise available on Intervening
Causes
October 20
Proximate Cause: Public Policy
Pages 349-355
October 21
Negligence: Duty of Care, Failure to Act
Pages 417-420; 432-438
October 22
Defenses to Negligence: Contributory and
Comparative Negligence
Pages 586-601
CALI Exercise available
on Comparative Fault and on Contributory Negligence
October 23
Defenses to Negligence: Assumption of Risk
Pages 601-607
October 27
Defenses to Negligence: Assumption of Risk
Pages 607-610
Defenses to Negligence: Statutes of Limitation
Pages 614-621
CALI Exercise available on Assumption
of Risk
October 28
Defenses to Negligence: Family Immunities
Pages 621-633
October 29
Defenses to Negligence: Charitable Immunity,
Government Immunity
Pages 633-648
October 30
Climate Change Conference
November 3
Damages
Pages 519-530
November
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Damages
Skim Pages 531-539
Read Pages 540-545
November 5
Damages
Read Pages 545-548
Skim Pages 548-550
Read Pages 550-556
November 6
Law Review Symposium
November 10
Damages
Pages 556-564
Several CALI Exercises are available
that address Damages
November 11
Joint and Several Liability
Pages 361-371
November 12
Joint and Several Liability
Pages 371-378; 383-386
November 13
Joint and Several Liability
Pages 386-392
November 17
Vicarious Liability
Pages 660-667
November 18
Vicarious Liability (cont.); Strict Liability
Pages 667-669; Skim 671-673; Read 686 - 699
CALI Exercises available for Strict
Liability
November 19
Strict Liability
Pages 699-714
CALI Exercises available for Strict
Liability
November 20
Strict Liability
Continued from Nov. 21
November
24-27
Fall Break
December 1
Premises Liability
Pages 485-498
December 2
Exam Review
December 10
Exam
Meeting Times and Location
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday:
9:40 in Classroom A
Text
Prosser, Wade and Schwartz, Torts: Eleventh
Edition.
Attendance
Policy
Attendance is mandatory. If a student
accumulates more than 8 unexcused absences during the semester,
the student will not pass the course. A student who has not read
the assigned materials for the class will be marked absent.
Preparation for class is mandatory. Class
participation will be considered in grading.
Contact
information
Professor Stephen Johnson
Dean's Office
(478) 301-2192
Johnson_s@law.mercer.edu