Assignment Problem: View a video showing examples of violence in professional hockey at YouTube Video: Violence in Hockey New Media 1000.
Based on what you have read in this chapter about the differences between civil and criminal law, if one of the hockey players was seriously hurt, do you think the video showed an example of a violation of civil law, of criminal law, or neither? Why? Would your answer be different if, instead of a player, one of the referees or a fan had been hurt? Assuming there is the basis for a civil lawsuit, what area of civil law would be involved? What types of damages do you think would be appropriate?