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Battery in Tort Law Battery in tort law is an intentional tort involving an unauthorized harmful or offensive contact with another person. I

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Assault in Tort Law Assault in tort law is an intentional tort involving conduct that causes another person to reasonably anticipate an immi

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Eggshell Plaintiff Rule The eggshell plaintiff rule, also called the eggshell skull rule or thin-skull rule, is a principle of tort law unde

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Negligence Per Se Negligence per se is a doctrine in tort law that can make a violation of a statute or regulation sufficient to establish t

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Intervening and Superseding Causes in Tort Law A defendant’s conduct does not always lead directly to an injury. Sometimes another event occ

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Foreseeability in Tort Law One of the most important questions in Tort Law is also one of the most deceptively simple: Could the harm reason

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Proximate Cause in Tort Law A defendant may have breached a duty of care. The defendant’s conduct may even have been a factual cause of the

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Factual Causation in Tort Law A defendant may have acted negligently. A defendant may have breached a duty of care. The plaintiff may even h

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Standard of Care in Tort Law In a negligence case, it is not enough to establish that the defendant owed the plaintiff a duty of care. The l

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The Reasonable Person Standard in Tort Law How does a court decide whether someone acted negligently? One of the central tools of Tort Law i

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Breach of Duty: When Does Conduct Become Negligence? Once a court determines that a defendant owed a plaintiff a duty of care, the next ques

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Duty of Care: Understanding the First Element of Negligence Before a person can ordinarily be held liable for negligence, there is a fundame