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4) Damages
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Tort Law Mapa Mental sobre 4) Damages, criado por Alex Cooper em 07-07-2013.
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4) Damages
EGG SHELL PRINCIPLE
NY: P'S RECOVERY REDUCED BY AMOUNT RECEIVED FROM OTHER SOURCES
EQUITABLE REMEDIES & INJUNCTIONS
Remedies & Injunctions available
Preliminary injunctions
i) Show likelihood of success on the merits
ii) Show irreparable harm
Permanent injunction - issued at end of litigation
Negative / prohibitory injunction - i.e. X enjoined from doing something
Mandatory injunctions
TEST
1) P must show no "adequate remedy at law"
money damages will not provide adequate remedy i.e. where tortious conduct repetitive / on going (trespass)
Note: court can give injunction + money damages
2) P must show the he has a protectable right involved in this particular law suit
'free square'
3) Injunction must be enforceable
Issue with affirmative or mandatory injunction
4) Balance of hardships - benefit to P must outweigh hardship to D
Defenses against injunction (not liablity)
i) P has unclean hands
ii) Laches - prejudicial delay in bringing request for injunction
iii) 1st Amendment - there can be no prior restraint
AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES
Common law - majority abolished + in NY
Contributory negligence
Bars P's right to recovery
Exception: Last clear chance
Imputed contributory negligence
Assumption of risk
NY: Primary assumption of risk - applies only to participants or spectators of formal recreational activities
Duty to retrain from reckless conduct - lower duty
You "assume the risk"
Majority rule + NY: Doctrine of comparative negligence
i) D must show P failed to exercise proper care for his own safety (reasonable prudence)
ii) D must show P is expected to observe self-protecting statues (e.g. don't jade walk)
Remedies
Pure comparative negligence
Damages allocated by percentage of fault
P always recovers something
Modified or partial comparative negligence
If P's fault over 50% - absolute bar to recovery
P's fault under 50% - recovery reduced by %
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