WorksheetsFalse Imprisonment
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 9mins
A defendant is liable for false imprisonment when she acts (a)
(hint: requisite mental state)
A defendant is liable for false imprisonment when she acts intentionally to _______ or ________
another person
(a)
A defendant is liable for false imprisonment when she acts intentionally to confine or restrain
another person within (a) fixed by the defendant
A defendant is liable for false imprisonment when she acts intentionally to confine or restrain
another person within boundaries fixed by the defendant, with no __________ means of ______
(a)
A defendant is liable for false imprisonment when she acts intentionally to confine or restrain
another person within boundaries fixed by the defendant, with no reasonable means of escape,
and the other person is _________ of the confinement or ______ by it.
(a)
Which of these is REQUIRED to be considered confinement?
A small room with a lock on the door
a bounded area in which the
plaintiff’s freedom of movement in all directions is
limited.
Handcuffs
Which of these do NOT constitute confinement?
Physical Barriers
Moral Pressure
Failure to provide a
reasonable means of safe escape
Invalid use of Legal Authority
Future Threats
Name the Concept:
A shopkeeper's detention of a suspected shoplifter is not false imprisonment, as long as the detention is
reasonable in both duration and manner
(a)
A police officer falsely arresting a citizen is not the tort of false imprisonment but instead is _____ ______.
(a)
What is the minimum length of time of confinement required for False Imprisonment?
No time requirement
5 min
1 hour
2+ hours
There is no False Imprisonment if a Plaintiff (a) to the Confinement.
(hint: past tense)
False Imprisonment could be committed even if the claimant is (a) of their imprisonment.
(Hint: actionable per se)
Which of these is NOT an example of False Imprisonment
Nursing home staff medicating a patient without their consent under physical or emotional threat
A person who closes the front door and asks you not to leave, but you know you can leave without harmful consequences
A person grabbing onto another person without their consent, and holding them so that they cannot leave
An employer who detains someone for questioning for an unreasonable amount of time for suspected theft
Paula locks Tony in a ground floor room. Tony sues Paula for false imprisonment. Which of the following is true?
Paula would escape liability if she let Tony out of the room after one hour.
According to some courts, Paula would escape liability if Tony slept through
the entire period that the door was locked and thus was unaware that he was
being detained.
Even if Tony could easily have escaped through an open window, Paula still is
liable.
Paula would not be liable if Tony could have escaped by traveling two miles
through a narrow, filthy, rat- infested sewer line that periodically floods with water.
PNC Bank notified the police that an audit had revealed one of its tellers had been embezzling money. After a bank officer signed a complaint on behalf of the bank, the police obtained a warrant from a magistrate and arrested the teller named in the complaint. The teller protested, asserting that she had stolen nothing. After the teller had been in jail overnight, the bank discovered that the auditor had named the wrong teller and immediately notified the police. The arrested teller was released with apologies. The teller then sued the city and the police department for false imprisonment. Will the teller prevail?
Yes, because of the teller’s protests of innocence
Yes, because the teller had not actually embezzeled from the bank
No, because the police acted pursuant to a valid warrant
No, because the police released the teller as soon as they discovered the error
