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A feminist rewrite of tort law cases that reveals gender bias and the law's failure to redress serious harms to women.
List of contents
Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction to the feminist judgments: rewritten torts opinions project Martha Chamallas and Lucinda M. Finley; Part II. The Classics: 2. Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., 162 N.E. 99 (N.Y. 1928) Taunya Lovell Banks and Maurice Dyson; 3. Escola v. Coca Cola Bottling Co. of Fresno, 150 P.2d 436 (Cal. 1944) Mary J. Davis and Zanita Fenton; 4. Farwell v. Keaton, 240 N.W.2d 217 (Mich. 1976) E Christi Cunningham and Sarah L. Swan; 5. Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California, 551 P.2d 334 (Cal. 1976) Jaimie R. Abrams, Sharmila Lodhia and Stephanie Wildman; Part III. Intentional Torts: 6. Robinson v. Cutchin, 140 F. Supp. 2d 488 (D. Md. 2001) Yvonne Lindgren and Alena Allen; 7. Guthrie v. Conroy, 567 S.E.2d 403 (N.C. Ct. App. 2002) L. Camille Hébert and Sandra Sperino; 8. Lyman v. Huber, 10 A.3d 707 (Me. 2010) Caroline Forell, Jeffrey Thomas and Leah Thomas; 9. Sipple v. Chronicle Publishing Co., 201 Cal. Rptr. 665 (Cal. Ct. App. 1984) Anna Lauren Hoffman and Scott Skinner-Thompson; Part IV. Negligence and Vicarious Liability: 10. Sharon P. v. Arman, Ltd., 989 P.2d 121 (Cal. 1999) Jessica Hynes and Yifat Bitton; 11. Broadnax v. Gonzalez, 809 N.E.2d 645 (N.Y. 2004) Elizabeth Kukura, Eileen Kaufman and Laura Dooley; 12. Boyles v. Kerr, 855 S.W.2d 593 (Tex. 1993) Lisa R. Pruitt and Cristina Tilley; 13. Emerson v. Magendantz, 689 A.2d 409 (R.I. 1997) Lucinda M. Finley and Katherine Silbaugh; 14. McCarty v. Pheasant Run, Inc., 826 F.2d 1554 (7th Cir. 1987) Molly Wilder and Hannah Brenner; 15. Lisa M. v. Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, 907 P.2d 358 (Cal. 1995) Christine M. Tamer and Stacey Tovino; Part V. Damages: 16. G.M.M. v. Kimpson, 116 F. Supp. 3d 126 (E.D.N.Y. 2015) Twila L. Perry, Jennifer B. Wriggins and Sara Cressey; 17. Simpkins v. Grace Brethren Church of Delaware, Ohio, 73 N.E.3d 122 (Ohio 2016) Jill Wieber Lens and Shaakirrah Sanders.
Summary
This volume of rewritten torts opinions exposes how courts often distort conventional legal doctrine when deciding cases involving gender-related harms. It will make students, lawyers, and judges who build arguments and apply tort doctrine more aware of inequalities of race, gender, class, sexual orientation and identity.
