Jim Whitney Economics 357

Torts: Case assignments by team

Instructions

To do:
1. Read the "Everyone reads" cases.
2. For the cases assigned to your team:
a. Read the case, with a focus on the perspective of your team's assigned side, Plaintiff or Defendant.
b. Plaintiff side should be prepared to present the facts of the case.
c. After class discussion of the case, Plaintiff side prepares a case brief:
<http://faculty.oxy.edu/whitney/classes/ec357/tasks/cases/brief_template.doc>
(1) For the case information (facts of the case, court opinion, etc.), copy and paste selected passages into the brief. Use brackets [] to enclose any passages you include that summarize or paraphrase the case.
(2) Your analytical summary should be about 1-2 paragraphs long. Aim to include in it the key points about the case raised during class.
(3)  Limit your entire brief to 2-3 pages, single-spaced.
(4) Email me your completed brief at (whitney@oxy.edu) by the time of the second class meeting after we have finished covering the case in class, so that I can post your brief in the class schedule.
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Torts: Case list

    Plaintiff Defendant
VB. Harm
      Winn Dixie Stores, Inc. (d) v. Benton (p) 576 So.2d 359  (1991) Everyone reads
VC. Causation - I
      Davies v. Mann, 10 M. & w. 547, 152 Eng. Rep. 588 (1842) Team 1 Team 5
      British Columbia Electric Rail Co., Ltd. (d) v. Loach (p), 1916 1 A.C. 7193 (1916) Team 2 Team 6
      Central of Georgia Ry. Co. (d) v. Price (p), 106 Ga. 176 , 32 S.E. 77 (1898) Team 3 Team 7
      Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Company 248 N.Y. 339 (1928) Team 4 Team 8
VC. Causation - II
      Blyth v. Birmingham Waterworks, 11 Exch. 781, 156 Eng. Rep. 1047 (1856) Team 6 Team 1
      Adams v. Bullock, 227 N.Y. 208, 125 N.E. 93 (1919) Team 7 Team 2
      Berry v. The Bourough of Sugar Notch, 191 Pa. 345 , 43 A. 240 (1899) Team 8 Team 3
      Kingston v. Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co. 211 N.W. 913 (1927) Team 5 Team 4
VD1. Liability - Negligence
      United States v. Carroll Towing Co., 159 F.2d 169 (1947) Everyone reads
      Saglimbeni v. West End Brewing Co., 274 A.D. 201; 80 N.Y.S.2d 635 (1948) Team 7 Team 1
      Dunn v. Hoffman Beverage Co., 126 N.J.L. 556 (1941) Team 8 Team 2
VD2. Victim fault
      Butterfield v. Forrester, King's Bench, 11 East 60 (1809) Everyone reads
      Dobson v. Louisiana Power & Light Co., 567 So. 2d 569 (1990) Team 5 Team 3
      Ordway (d) v. Superior Court (p) 198 Cal.App.3d 98 (1988) Team 6 Team 4
VD3. Strict liability
      Turner v Big Lake Oil Company, 128 Tex. 155; 96 S.W.2d 221 (1936) Team 1 Team 8
      Escola v. Coca Cola Bottling Co., 24 Cal. 2d 453 (1944) Everyone reads
      McDaniel v. McNeil Lab. Inc., 241 N.W.2d 822 (1976) Team 2 Team 5
VD4. Joint liability
      Summers v. Tice 33 Cal. 2d 80 (1948) Everyone reads
      Ybarra v. Spangard 25 Cal. 2d 486 (1944) Team 3 Team 6
      Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories, 26 Cal. 3d 588 (1980) Team 4 Team 7
VE. Damages tbd
      Vosburg v. Putney, 80 Wis. 523 (1891) Team 7 Team 1
      Wycko v. Gnodtke, 361 Mich. 331 (1960) Team 6 Team 5
      Hunt v. K-Mart Corp. 981 P.2d 275 (1999) Team 2 Team 4
      Rickards v. Sun Oil Co., 23 N.J. Misc. 89 (1945) Team 3 Team 8