SUMMARY

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SUMMARY

• DUTY DS RELATIONSHIP WITH DANGEROUS PERSON
• EXAMPLE LANDLORD-TENANT
• KEY KNOWLEDGE PLUS ABILITY TO CONTROL
• EXAMPLE PARENT-CHILD
• TIGHTENED STANDARD

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SUMMARY (cont.)

• EXAMPLE PSYCHOTHERAPIST-PATIENT (TARAOFF)
• 1. DUTY TO WARN VICTIM, NOT PROTECT THE VICTIM
• COMPARE THOMPSON
• 2. COMPARE DUTY TO WARN PATIENT (DIMARCO)
• NEGLIGENT ENTRUSTMENT--MISFEASANCE

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DUTY AND LIQUOR

• 1. SELLING LIQUOR BRIGANCE
• 2. DUTY TO DRIVER?
• 3. SOCIAL PROVIDERS OF LIQUOR

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DUTY AND PROXIMATE CAUSE

• LIMITING LIABILITY UNDER PROXIMATE CAUSE
• THE RISK PRINCIPLE
• LIMITING LIABILITY UNDER DUTY CATEGORIZING
  CERTAIN TYPES OF CASES
• 1. LANDOWNERS/ OCCUPIERS
• 2. NONFEASANCE

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DUTY AND PROXIMATE CAUSE(Cont.)

• 3. CONTRACTS AND PROMISES
• 4. PURE EMOTIONAL DISTRESS
• 5. ECONOMIC LOSS
• DUTY SETS LEGAL RULES
• PROXIMATE CAUSE IS MORE FACT SPECIFIC (NOTE 3. P.
  570)
• DUTY USES GENERIC CLASSES OF CASES TO LIMIT
  LIABILITY

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CATEGORIZING THE EMOTIONAL DISTRESS RULES

• TWO LARGE CATEGORIES
• 1. EMOTIONAL DISTRESS FROM RISKS OF PHYSICAL
  HARM
• TO PERSONS PUT AT RISK
• WHERE THIRD PARTIES AT RISK
• 2. EMOTIONAL DISTRESS INDEPENDENT OF PHYSICAL RISK

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THE DEVELOPMENT WHERE P WAS AT PHYSICAL RISK

• 1. IMPACT RULE (MITCHELL)
• IMPACT --gt EMOTIONAL DISTRESS
• 2. PHYSICAL INJURY OR MANIFESTATION
• EMOTIONAL DISTRESS?INJURY/MANIFESTATION
• 3. PURE EMOTIONAL DISTRESS

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TRANSITIONING E.D. BECAUSE OF INJURY TO OTHERS

• THE ZONE OF DANGER TEST
• GRUBE
• FEAR FOR ONES OWN SAFETY IS A PREREQUISITE. IF
  SO CAN FEAR FOR SAFETY OF OTHERS
• IMPACT RULE NEED PHYSICAL OR EMOTIONAL INJURY
• QUESTIONING THE ZONE OF DANGER TEST DILLON v.
  LEGG
• DILLON TESTP. 575 note 3
• THING TEST

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DIRECT VICTIMS

• BURGESS
• 1. P AND D IN A PREEXISTING RELATIONSHIP OR
• CLEAR THAT DS NEGLIGENCE WILL DIRECTLY INJURE P
• BYSTANDER RULES DONT APPLY

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PROGRESSION OF NIED

• IMPACT RULE
• ZONE OF DANGER
• THING
• DILLON
• 5. GENERAL FORESEEABILITY ANALYSIS

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LOSS OF CONSORTIUM

• GENERAL RULES
• SPOUSES CAN RECOVER
• CHILDREN GENERALLY CANNOT
• PARENTS GENERALLY CANNOT
• THE QUESTION OF UNMARRIED COHABITANTS

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DUTIES INDEPENDENT OF PHYSICAL RISKS

• 2 TRADITIONAL EXCEPTIONS
• 1. DEATH MESSAGES
• 2. MISHANDLING OF CORPSES
• SHOULD MISINFORMATION IDEA (DEATH MESSAGES) BE
  EXPANDED?
• HEINER (586)
• GENERAL DUTY RULE SACCO (588)