MGMT 200 PURDUE FINAL EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Invasion of privacy torts - ✔✔appropriation, intrusion into solitude, false light, public
disclosure of facts
✔✔Appropriation - ✔✔using someones likeness for commercial purpose without their
permission
✔✔Intrusion into Solitude - ✔✔must get permission for recording otherwise its an
intentional tort of invasion to privacy
✔✔False Light - ✔✔publishing something with significant misinformation
✔✔Public disclosure of private facts - ✔✔cannot disclose private information to public
and usually this is statutory (criminal/civil action)
✔✔Defamation - ✔✔intentional tort of either Libel (written word) or slander (spoken
word) ex. employers too honest about their former employees
✔✔LIBEL - ✔✔plaintiff bears burden of proving beyond a preponderance of evidence
that:
1. libel was said to third person
2. identified plaintiff
3. libel was defamatory/per se
4. libel was false
4a. if press is defendant requires the plaintiff to prove fault
1. public figure:
must be knowingly false. reckless disregard for truth
2.non public figure:
press was negligent
✔✔privity - ✔✔legal relationship that illicits responisbility of some kind
✔✔strictly liable - ✔✔producer of a product will be held __________ ___________ if
user uses it the way its intended
✔✔wrongful death - ✔✔family members can sue for ________ __________ who
depend on the income of the deceased can sue for loss of companionship/ future
income
✔✔survivor statue - ✔✔allows the deceased's claim to flow to heirs, aka estate has right
to sue on behalf
, ✔✔compensatory damages - ✔✔aka actual damages, consist of money damages
awarded to plaintiff for real loss or injury
✔✔types of compensatory damages - ✔✔special damages, general damages
✔✔special damages - ✔✔out of pocket damages, like medical bills time off work
✔✔general damages - ✔✔NOT out of pocket expenses that include pain and suffereing,
mental distress
✔✔nominal damages - ✔✔small token damages, like attorney fees, contractual fees
✔✔punitive damages - ✔✔law punishes tortfeasor by allowing these damages,
especially when tortfeasor is especially Blameworthy, CANT GET THESE WITHOUT
general damages (only avail for specific things like product liability with wilfull disregard)
✔✔real property - ✔✔tangible/intangible property
✔✔intellectual property - ✔✔things created by mental processes
✔✔fee simple - ✔✔when you just own something, plain and simple
✔✔conditional estate/lease - ✔✔the right to rent your property out
✔✔life interest - ✔✔own it until you die
✔✔future interest - ✔✔own it after the passing of the current life interest owner
✔✔easement - ✔✔permanent/set duration time to use property for some specified
reason (run cables under house ex)
✔✔eminent domain - ✔✔governments right to take your property with just pay
✔✔prescriptive easement - ✔✔when you "let" someone use your house for long
enough, they have rights to use it
✔✔restrictive covenants - ✔✔rules like must be 55 or over to buy, no discrimination
allowed though
✔✔tradename - ✔✔name that represents some product or company and is protected
✔✔trademark - ✔✔an image or symbol that designates a company
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Invasion of privacy torts - ✔✔appropriation, intrusion into solitude, false light, public
disclosure of facts
✔✔Appropriation - ✔✔using someones likeness for commercial purpose without their
permission
✔✔Intrusion into Solitude - ✔✔must get permission for recording otherwise its an
intentional tort of invasion to privacy
✔✔False Light - ✔✔publishing something with significant misinformation
✔✔Public disclosure of private facts - ✔✔cannot disclose private information to public
and usually this is statutory (criminal/civil action)
✔✔Defamation - ✔✔intentional tort of either Libel (written word) or slander (spoken
word) ex. employers too honest about their former employees
✔✔LIBEL - ✔✔plaintiff bears burden of proving beyond a preponderance of evidence
that:
1. libel was said to third person
2. identified plaintiff
3. libel was defamatory/per se
4. libel was false
4a. if press is defendant requires the plaintiff to prove fault
1. public figure:
must be knowingly false. reckless disregard for truth
2.non public figure:
press was negligent
✔✔privity - ✔✔legal relationship that illicits responisbility of some kind
✔✔strictly liable - ✔✔producer of a product will be held __________ ___________ if
user uses it the way its intended
✔✔wrongful death - ✔✔family members can sue for ________ __________ who
depend on the income of the deceased can sue for loss of companionship/ future
income
✔✔survivor statue - ✔✔allows the deceased's claim to flow to heirs, aka estate has right
to sue on behalf
, ✔✔compensatory damages - ✔✔aka actual damages, consist of money damages
awarded to plaintiff for real loss or injury
✔✔types of compensatory damages - ✔✔special damages, general damages
✔✔special damages - ✔✔out of pocket damages, like medical bills time off work
✔✔general damages - ✔✔NOT out of pocket expenses that include pain and suffereing,
mental distress
✔✔nominal damages - ✔✔small token damages, like attorney fees, contractual fees
✔✔punitive damages - ✔✔law punishes tortfeasor by allowing these damages,
especially when tortfeasor is especially Blameworthy, CANT GET THESE WITHOUT
general damages (only avail for specific things like product liability with wilfull disregard)
✔✔real property - ✔✔tangible/intangible property
✔✔intellectual property - ✔✔things created by mental processes
✔✔fee simple - ✔✔when you just own something, plain and simple
✔✔conditional estate/lease - ✔✔the right to rent your property out
✔✔life interest - ✔✔own it until you die
✔✔future interest - ✔✔own it after the passing of the current life interest owner
✔✔easement - ✔✔permanent/set duration time to use property for some specified
reason (run cables under house ex)
✔✔eminent domain - ✔✔governments right to take your property with just pay
✔✔prescriptive easement - ✔✔when you "let" someone use your house for long
enough, they have rights to use it
✔✔restrictive covenants - ✔✔rules like must be 55 or over to buy, no discrimination
allowed though
✔✔tradename - ✔✔name that represents some product or company and is protected
✔✔trademark - ✔✔an image or symbol that designates a company
