True or False
1. In Price v. Purdue Pharma Co., precedent prohibiting a plaintiff patient from recovering against defendant doctors, if the plaintiff patient’s own criminal acts contributed to the circumstances causing the injury, supported the court’s ruling granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant doctors.
2. In Washington, the doctrine of contributory negligence means that if a plaintiff is found to be 40 percent negligent, any jury calculation and award of damages to plaintiff will be reduced by 40 percent. (Note: be sure to review the Torts lecture notes for this question—do not just rely on the online text or the online text’s links.)
3. Depending upon the facts of the particular situation, trespass to chattels can occur either as a traditional tort or as a cybertort.
4. Slander involves the written communication of a defamatory statement.
5. Parties can agree by contract to submit to binding arbitration, and give up their rights to file a lawsuit against each other.