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Emanuel CrunchTime for Torts 6th Edition Steven L. Emanuel ISBN 9781543807479

Emanuel CrunchTime® for Torts, Sixth Edition, by Steve Emanuel, focuses on the key topics essential for today’s Torts courses and provides a wealth of short-answer questions, multiple-choice questions, essay questions, and practical exam tips. This edition has been updated to reflect changes in the law, casebooks, and exam trends.

Student Benefits:

• Flowcharts that clearly illustrate principles and concepts.

• Capsule summaries that highlight major topics and issues covered in the course.

• Exam Tips to help avoid common pitfalls.

• Short-answer questions with answers to test your understanding.

• Multiple-choice questions in the style of the Multistate Bar Exam, complete with detailed answers, to build exam skills and confidence.

• Essay questions with model answers to aid review and exam preparation.

New in the Sixth Edition:

• “Value of a chance” in medical-malpractice cases: Can a patient recover when there was less than a 50/50 chance that non-negligent treatment would have improved the outcome? [Smith v. Providence Health & Services]

• Pure economic loss: Expanded discussion on courts’ refusal to allow recovery for purely economic damages, including businesses affected by toxic gas leaks without personal injury or property damage. [Southern California Gas Leak Cases]

• Modern approach to the “both ways” rule: Updated coverage on imputed contributory/comparative negligence and the refusal to apply the rule against owner-passengers injured by combined negligence. [Seaborne-Worsely v. Mintiens]

• Duty to warn in prescription-drug cases: Clarifies when a plaintiff can sue the brand-name manufacturer for inadequate labeling if they actually took a generic version. [T.H. v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.]

• Strict product liability for Internet sales: Explores whether a fulfillment service provider can be liable as a “seller” even if it never takes title to the goods. [Oberdorf v. Amazon.com Inc.]

Emanuel CrunchTime for Torts 6th Edition Steven L. Emanuel ISBN 9781543807479, 978-1543807479 & 9798892075763

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Steven L. Emanuel