Patty Plaintiffs Really Bad Week Assignment and Solution

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Patty Plaintiff’s Really Bad Week Name Professor Course Date PATTY PLAINTIFF’S REALLY BAD WEEK 2 Patty Plaintiff’s Really Bad Week Time to time, people could be faced with unfortunate sit... uations and they might find it challenging to determine if these happenings could have any legal claims. This is the same dilemma that Patty Plaintiffs is facing after having a really unlucky week. Patty’s problems start when she is wrongly accused of shoplifting in her favorite store where she had gone to get a laptop. As she lives the store, she is accidentally hit by a golf ball and in addition to missing her appointment, she had to take five days to recover from her head injuries. Patty’s problems do not end there, but on returning to work, she is accused of violation of the company’s policies because she had used the company’s email to send her mother an email. This violation leads to Patty getting reprimanded and she ends up using social media in her home computer posting disparaging comments about her boss. This would in the next day cost Patty her job. This paper analyzes the various potential legal claims that Patty could make against each of the parties leading to her unfortunate events if any. Possible Tort Claims against Cash Mart Tort is described to be wrongful infringement of rights that could then lead to legal claims [Ken142]. In the provided scenario, Patty can use several types of intentional tort claims against the store. One of these torts is false imprisonment or false arrest. Patty is forcefully held in a room within the store waiting for over one hour, but is finally let free without any proof that she had shoplifted. Another tort is the defamation that describes intentional making of false statements about an individual, which could injure their reputation. Wrongfully accusing Patty without any evidence injured her reputation. For instance, what would have happened if Patty’s neighbor, friend, or colleague were there when she was being accused of shoplifting? [Show More]

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