Torts I & II – 2009-2010 – University of North Dakota School of Law
Course Information:
for Torts I:
for Torts II:
Syllabus for Torts II [pdf] (See organization chart for updated course coverage information.)
The Wypadki:
Johnson's Torts Compendium for 2009-2010:
for Torts I:
Walter v. Wal-Mart
Boyd v. Racine Currency Exchange [pdf]
South v. Amtrak [pdf]
Weirum v. RKO [pdf]
Dobson v. Dobson [pdf]
The T.J. Hooper [pdf]
U.S. v. Carroll Towing [pdf]
Byrne v. Boadle [pdf]
Beswick v. CareStat [pdf]
Anderson v. Cryovac
for Torts II:
Wishnatsky v. Huey [pdf]
Moore v. U.C. Regents [pdf]
Katko v. Briney [pdf]
Isaacs v. Monkeytown, U.S.A. [pdf]
Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee [pdf]
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, excerpt [pdf]
Pub. L. No. 110-140, Title XIV [pdf]
Bivens v. Six Unknown Agents [pdf]
Benally v. Navajo Nation [pdf]
Committee on Children's Television v. General Foods [pdf]
Association for Retarded Citizens of North Dakota v, Link [image-based pdf]
April Enterprises v. KTTV [pdf]
Bindrim v. Mitchell [pdf]
Polydoros v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. [pdf]
Shulman v. Group W [pdf]
Thomas v. Siddiqui [pdf]
Helsel v. Noellsch [pdf]
Johnson's Torts Referenced Works for 2009-2010:
A Civil Action (film, Touchstone Pictures, 1998)
The U.S. Experience with No-Fault Automobile Insurance: A Retrospective by Anderson et al. (summary only) [pdf]
Leslie Bender, A Lawyer's Primer on Feminist Theory and Tort, 38 J. Legal Educ. 3 (1988) [link provided in class]
Classroom Notes and Presentations:
Classroom Notes and Presentations for Torts I:
Classroom Notes and Presentations for Torts II:
Helpful Materials for Thinking About the Exam:
Midterm Quiz from Torts I 2007, Responses, and Feedback Memo:
Other old first-semester exams:
Required Books and Materials for Torts:
Required book:
Cases and Materials on Torts, Second Edition
by John L. Diamond
2008; 813 pages; hardcover
Publisher: Thomson West
ISBN-13: 978-0314154101
Required book:
Understanding Torts, Third Edition
by John L. Diamond, Lawrence C. Levine, M. Stuart Madden
2007; paperback
Publisher: Matthew Bender (also branded as LexisNexis)
ISBN: 9781422411605
Required book:
Four Trials
by John Edwards with John Auchard
2004; 256 pages; paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10: 0743272048
ISBN-13: 978-0743272049
Required supply item:
TurningPoint ResponseCard RF
Model: ResponseCard RF
Manufacturer: Response Innovations
Distributor: Turning Technologies
Item model number: RCRF-01
[NOTE: THE RESPONSECARD XR MAY BE PURCHASED IN LIEU OF THE RESPONSECARD
RF. ONLY ONE RESPONSE CARD IS NEEDED.]
Optional supply item:
TurningPoint ResponseCard XR
Model: ResponseCard XR
Manufacturer: Response Innovations
Distributor: Turning Technologies
Item model number: RCXR-01
[NOTE: THE RESPONSECARD XR MAY BE PURCHASED IN LIEU OF THE RESPONSECARD
RF. ONLY ONE RESPONSE CARD IS NEEDED.]
Midterm Quiz from Torts I 2009:
Answers and scores, hand scored sheets [pdf]
Answers and scores, computer scored sheets [pdf]
Special materials available in advance of the exam:
Best of luck!
- EEJ
Copyright 2009-2010 Eric E. Johnson. All rights reserved.
