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Fordham Law School

2014

Torts

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Des And A Proposed Theory Of Enterprise Liability, Naomi Sheiner Oct 2014

Des And A Proposed Theory Of Enterprise Liability, Naomi Sheiner

Fordham Law Review

To commemorate our founding in 1914, the Board of Editors has selected six influential pieces published by the Law Review over the past 100 years and will republish one piece in each issue.
The first piece selected by the Board is DES and a Proposed Theory of Enterprise Liability. This Comment, written in 1978 by Fordham Law Review staff member Naomi Sheiner, helped to pioneer the concept of enterprise liability. It has been cited by nearly 250 scholarly articles and in more than 100 cases, including Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories, 607 P.2d 924 (Cal. 1980), the leading case …


Reputational Injury Without A Reputational Attack: Addressing Negligence Claims For Pure Reputational Harm, Bryson Kern Oct 2014

Reputational Injury Without A Reputational Attack: Addressing Negligence Claims For Pure Reputational Harm, Bryson Kern

Fordham Law Review

This Note examines the unsettled relationship between defamation and negligence. The law of defamation, through the torts of libel and slander, constitutes a well-developed and complex body of state common law and constitutional considerations. However, some claims for reputational harm may fall outside of this framework, as the law of defamation does not account for all of the ways that an individual’s reputation may be injured. Thus, plaintiffs sometimes bring negligence claims to seek redress for damage to reputation.
When a plaintiff brings a negligence claim for pure reputational harm, the court is faced with a variety of options for …