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The article presents U.S. court cases including Ruan v. City of Monterey Park, which deals with motor vehicle liability where city employee fatally strikes pedestrian in crosswalk; Giorgi v. City of Sacramento, related to government liability; and Lynch v. Song, related to intentional tort.

The article discusess Supreme Court of Nevada court case Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt addressing weather sovereign state to be hailed into another state's courts without its consent, should be overruled. In this case Hyatt filed suit alleging that it had committed certain intentional torts while auditing its 1991 and 1992 state tax returns.

The article discusses issues related to the control of police behavior. The police are respected and feared as visible representatives of criminal justice processes. One way of controlling police behavior is through mechanisms of oversight. It is based on the idea that police behavior can be identified and corrected or punished.

In a heart-warming judgment handed by the Supreme Court, the victim of childhood abuse and rape, has won the right to tell his harrowing tale. He is not deemed thereby, as the Court of Appeal suggested, to intend psychiatric harm to his young son, to whom the book is dedicated. The suggestion that he might have intended to cause his son psychiatric harm, came from the application of the Victorian tort of "wilful infringement of the right to personal safety", established in the 1897 case of Wilkinson v Downton which the Supreme Court analysed in detail.2 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports the decision of the Ohio Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court in the case 'Lunsford v. H.R Manuf'g Co. Inc.' It informs that Xavier Lunsford brought a workplace intentional tort claim against the company. It also reports that the state has eliminated common law cause of action, forcing injured employees to rely on the state's bureaucratic workers' compensation structure.

The article discusses the U.S. appellate court case Lee v. Kim wherein the court held that a restaurant must litigate the claim filed by a patron injured in a fight. Several complaints filed by the patron against the restaurant are negligence, violation of the state's dram shop act and other intentional tort claims. Also mentioned are duty to take reasonable precautions, criminal acts of a third party, and the intensive facts required in negligence cases.

The article discusses the elements of the tort of false imprisonment. According to the author, the plaintiff in an intentional tort such as false imprisonment needs to establish the action or event, intention, causation and damages. The different forms of confinement are tackled including confinement by physical force and failure to release. The author notes that the tort usually arises in situations where the tortfeasor deprives the plaintiff of the ability to make independent decisions.

The article focuses on the decision of the Nebraska Court of Appeals in the case D.M. v. State of Nebraska which held a prisoner's claim alleging an intentional tort related to a sexual assault by a guard was barred by the State Tort Claims Act (STCA) and negligent infliction of emotional distress.

The article discusses a jury award in the 2012 Hartford, Connecticut Judicial District Superior Court case Welsh v. Martinez which deals with intentional torts, including invasion of privacy and negligence per se claims as a result of defendant William Martinez''s alleged installation of audio and video surveillance equipment in plaintiff D'Anna Welsh's home. It states that the jury awarded Welsh over two million dollars in damages, attorney fees, and punitive damages.

The article discusses intentional torts law and the San Luis Obispo County, California Superior Court's ruling in the 2011 case Mascorro v. Alex Bar-B-Q which deals with the death of a bar patron from blunt force head trauma following a physical altercation with another customer at the bar.