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¶ K, lines 85-86. Sure enough, one day the Torte Bomber machine malfunctioned, injuring Nadiya severely and damaging the building. Assume the Torte Bomber machine malfunctioned because a protective shield was not correctly installed when the machine was being made in the KitchenButler plant. This is because an assembler did not tighten a washer on tight enough, causing the protective shield to fail when a piece of the machine broke off while in operation.KitchenButler could be liable for the subsequent injury because of:

¶ B, lines 24-26. [Liverpool] drove off in one the Market’s motorized shopping carts. (That cart was found weeks later; Liverpool had sold it to a homeless person; see Exhibit 3.)By selling the shopping cart to someone, Liverpool has committed the tort of:

¶ H, lines 72-74. After that March 1 appearance by Liverpool, the facts of this case were presented to a panel of 23 people from the community who also issued charges against Liverpool. The charge provided by that panel was presented to Liverpool at the next court appearance on April 1.By going this route to charge a crime, the prosecution avoids the possibility of what?

¶ D.  By the way: surprising thing about that photo in Exhibit 1; it’s a photo of Vincent Gallo (whose photo also appears in Exhibit 2), an American actor, director, model, musician, painter and former motorcycle racer. Gallo did not consent to the use of his photo in the flyer created by Fielding or replicated by Liverpool. Gallo potentially has a cause of action for the misappropriation of his likeness, which is the tort of:

¶ B, lines 16-17. Fielding took Liverpool’s threat seriously. Every night, as he closed the Market, he set booby-traps in case Liverpool would try to break into the Market while it was closed.Except in the most extreme situations, a property owner does NOT have the right to:

¶ C, lines 31-36. Another driver, Walter Wayward, was driving drunk after drinking cherry vodka shots at PruBerrys. Wayward was easily distracted by all the activity, and Wayward crashed his vehicle into the old Manias Manor building that was being prepared for demolition. (See Exhibit 4.) Because there was no fencing around that building, once Wayward hit the building, bricks easily fell upon Wayward’s car causing much more damage than if Wayward had hit a “regular building.” Because of the extensive damage to Wayward’s car, Wayward decides to sue the owner of Manias Manor and the demolition crew. Under “old” negligence law, because Wayward had some fault in the incident, the result of Wayward’s suit would likely be:

¶ I,  lines 75-77. Fielding was also charged with a crime because of what happened in paragraph A, line 14. Instead of contesting the charge, so that sentencing could proceed without the costs of a trial and avoiding the affect of a guilty plea in a subsequent civil action.What is the name for the plea Fielding entered?

¶ L, lines 104-105. She also sought assistance during Covid by mailing in those false financial statements to the Small Business Administration for an Emergency Capital Investment loan that she didn’t get.If Pru had been caught doing this, she could have been charged with the crime of:

¶ B, lines 26-27. Fielding was upset, reached behind the counter for a gun, went to the door and fired a shot toward a fleeing Liverpool.If Fielding’s shot accidentally hit Liverpool as he was running away, that would have been the crime of:

Why does Fielding have a defense to a claim brought by the injured pedestrian?