Members of Students for Fair Tuition (SFT) decide to protest rising.
tuition costs at Gigantic State University (GSU) by taking over Dunfee.
Hall, the location of GSU president Dalton Chandler's office. As they storm.
into the reception area of Chandler's office suite, shouting "Down with.
fascist tuition increases," Chandler's faithful secretary, Prudence Pimply,.
picks up a phone to call the campus police. Steve Steel, radical leader of.
the SFT, slaps the phone knocking it from Prudence's hand without ever.
touching her. He then pulls out an amazing lifelike squirt gun and.
threatens to blow Prudence's head off if she so much as moves an inch.
toward the phone or the door. Prudence collapses in a sobbing heap on her.
desk. Unfortunately for their purposes, the students find the only door to.
Chandler's third floor office locked from the inside. After a few feeble.
attempts to break it down, they contend with barricading his door with.
filing cabinets and singing "We Will Overcome" until the police arrive.
shortly thereafter. The total time elapsed from the moment the students.
entered the building until the police arrive is ten minutes. President.
Chandler was taking a nap and slept through the entire incident. Prudence.
was so upset that she couldn't return to work for a week, and then only.
managed to do so under heavy doses of tranquilizers prescribed by her.
doctor, Morton Mallard. Was a crime committed? as there any negligence involved.
in this case? What laws and rights were violated? Who should be held liable.
for the damages (physical and mental)?.
Tort Law.
Tort law is the name given to a body of law that creates, and provides.
remedies for, civil wrongs that do not arise out of contractual duties.
(Glanville) A person who is legally injured may be able to use tort law to.
recover damages from someone who is legally responsible, or "liable," for.