Collocations - Intentional Torts and Privacy

In a [blank_start]tort action[blank_end], one person or group [blank_start]brings[blank_end] a lawsuit against another person or group to [blank_start]obtain[blank_end] compensation (monetary damages) or other relief for the harm suffered.

Compensatory damages and punitive damages are the two general types of damages that plaintiffs [blank_start]seek[blank_end] in tort actions.

Compensatory damages are intended to compensate or [blank_start]reimburse[blank_end] a plaintiff for actual losses—that is, to put her or him in the same position that she or he would have been in had the tort not [blank_start]occurred[blank_end]. Occasionally, the courts may also [blank_start]award[blank_end] punitive damages in tort cases to punish the wrongdoer and [blank_start]deter[blank_end] others [blank_start]from[blank_end] similar wrongdoing. Punitive damages are appropriate only when the defendant's conduct was particularly [blank_start]egregious[blank_end] or reprehensible.

Businesspersons often [blank_start]face[blank_end] [blank_start]suits[blank_end] for false imprisonment after they have attempted to [blank_start]confine[blank_end] a suspected shoplifter for questioning. Under the "privilege" to detain [blank_start]granted[blank_end] to merchants in most states, a merchant can use [blank_start]reasonable[blank_end] force to detain or delay persons suspected of shoplifting and [blank_start]hold[blank_end] them for the police.

To be actionable means to be capable of [blank_start]serving as ground[blank_end] for a lawsuit.

Businesspersons are [blank_start]prohibited[blank_end] [blank_start]from[blank_end] unreasonably interfering with another's business in their attempts to gain a greater share of the market.

The basis of the tort of defamation is the publication of a statement or statements that [blank_start]hold[blank_end] an individual [blank_start]up[blank_end] [blank_start]to[blank_end] contempt, ridicule or hatred.

Before a person can be a trespasser, the real property owner must [blank_start]establish[blank_end] that person [blank_start]as[blank_end] a trespasser.

[blank_start]Under[blank_end] the "attractive nuisance" [blank_start]doctrine[blank_end], a landowner may be [blank_start]held[blank_end] liable for injuries [blank_start]sustained[blank_end] by young children on the landowner's property if the children were attracted to the premises by some object, such as a swimming pool or an abandoned building.