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Torts: Cases, Problems, and Policy Choices

White City Shopping Center v. PR Restaurants, LLC

The Sandwich Case

[Note: This case has nothing to do with torts. It is a case more appropriate in a contracts casebook. Nonetheless, it offers a good introduction to questions of legal interpretation, the function of precedent in the judicial system, and the use of line-drawing in legal analysis. The case thus functions as a transitional case as we move from the foundations of law--and tort law specifically--to our first doctrinal tort concept of "intent"]