1) Sean was angry at Sheldon. Sean approached Sheldon from behind, and hit him in the back with his fist. He hit Sheldon so hard that Sheldon suffered harm to one of his kidneys, and he had to go to the hospital for several days! In tort law, Sheldon could sue Sean for:

a. Assault

b. Battery

c. Negligence

d. Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

2) The singer Beyonce was interviewed by a reporter for STAR Magazine, and she falsely claimed that Taylor Swift had committed the crime of Armed Robbery back before she became famous. The STAR Magazine published the interview, in their weekly magazine, complete with Beyonces false statement about Taylor Swift. If Taylor Swift wants to sue the STAR Magazine, she should file this type of tort:

a. Negligence tort

b. Strict liability tort

c. Intentional tort of slander

d. Intentional tort of libel

e. Malpractice

3)

Maria and Jesus are long-time friends from high school. They form a general partnership to build townhouses in new subdivisions. Everything goes pretty well for the first couple of years, and they each make a good living. Then, Maria goes to Las Vegas for a week, and loses ALL of her property gambling at the casinos. Determined to recoup her losses at the roulette wheel, she withdraws all the cash from the partnership bank accounts (including the employee payroll for the next week) and goes back to Vegas. Unfortunately, she loses worse than she did before all of the partnership bank account money is gone. In a fit of despair, Maria gets drunk and drives the partnership pickup-truck off a cliff, and dies. The county coroner rules that it was death by suicide. Because she died by suicide, the life insurance company refuses to pay on her $250,000 life-insurance policy. As Maria had already lost all her other property gambling, there is nothing in Marias estate to pay her remaining debts.

a. as general partners, Jesus will be legally responsible for all debts of the company even those created by Maria.

b. Jesus will only be responsible for paying debts of the company that he personally created on behalf of the company.

c. Jesus will only be responsible for paying the payroll to the company employees. All the other business debts will just go away because of Marias death.

d. Jesus can always file suit against Marias estate, to get back her 50% of all the liabilities that he has to pay.