he went to the Dr. Ted's best cause of action would be - Answer✔️✔️-to sue Stan for
battery
In a tweet to Calvin, a reporter for the site Blast, Ellen accuses Financial Services
Corporation of cheating on its taxes. If false, making this statement is - Answer✔️✔️-
defamation.
Penny drove through an intersection without looking and hit Sheldon's car that he had
driven into the intersection without obeying a stop sign. Penny sued Sheldon. The jury
found that Penny's fault contributed 20 percent to the collision and determined that her
total loss was $100,000. Under comparative negligence, the jury should award Penny: -
Answer✔️✔️-$80,000.
A ninety-year-old patient walked away from a nursing home and wandered onto some
nearby railroad tracks. Once on the tracks, the patient stumbled and sprained his ankle.
A few minutes later a train approached. The engineer saw the man on the track and
could have stopped, but the train's brakes were defective. As a result, the train hit and
killed the man. His family is suing the railroad for negligence in a state that follows the
contributory negligence doctrine. In this case, - Answer✔️✔️-the train had the last clear
chance to avoid the accident, so the patient's contributory negligence does not bar his
estate's recovery.
Chris was driving a car with defective brakes very slowly down Fifth Avenue looking for
a parking place. Mindy jumped out into the street five feet in front of his car. Chris could
not avoid hitting her. What is Chris's best defense to the charge of negligence? -
Answer✔️✔️-Mindy illegally crossed in the middle of the street, which was a superseding
cause of the accident.
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