Law and Economics Final Review

LIST OF CASES

Butterfield v. Forrester (log in road)

Davies v. Mann (donkey in road)

Flood v. Kuhn(baseball)                                                                  

Rector of Holy Trinity Church v. U.S (imported rector) 

Property

Bass v. Gregory (beer brewed in cellar) (from Coase article)

Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co. (noise & dust from cement co.)

Bryant v. Lefever (chimney smoking) (from Coase article)

Carpenter v. Double B Cattle Company (cattle lot & residents)

Cheney Bros. v. Doris Silk Co. (fashion designs)

Cook v. Forbes (black mats) (from Coase article)

Hammonds v. Central Kentucky Natural Gas Co. (natural gas under property)

Messersmith v. Smith (recording property)

O'Keefe v. Snyder (disputed ownership of painting)

Paset v. Old Orchard Bank & Trust (mislaid/lost cash)

Pierson v. Post (fox)

Spur v. Del E. Webb Development Co. (cattle lot & AZ developer)

Sturges v. Bridman (confectioner & doctor) (from Coase article)

Van Valkenburg v. Lutz (lots 19-22, with a garden & shack)

Torts

Butterfield v. Forrester (log in road)

Davies v. Mann (donkey in road)

Escola v. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. (exploding coke)

Helling v. Carey (glaucoma)

Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc. (owner’s wife injured)

Li v. Yellow Cab Co. of CA (crossing intersection)

MacDonald v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. (blood clot from “the pill”)

MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co.  (defective wheel on Buick – not manufactured by Buick)

Mathias v. Accor Economy Lodging (bedbugs)

Morgan v. Faberge (flammable cologne)

Scott v. Alpha Beta Company (wet floor & pink furry slippers)

Shepard v. Superior Court of Alameda County (loss spreading ability of strict liability)

The T.J. Hooper (2-way radio)

US v. Carroll Towing Co. (barges untied)

Winterbottom v Wright (defective wheel on US Postal service wagon)

Contracts

Batsakis v. Demotsis (drachma for dollars)

Halbman v. Lemke (minor buys car)

Hamer v. Sidway (uncle/nephew)

Obde v. Schlemeyer (termites)

Sherwood v. Walker (cow)

Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co. (furniture contract)

Readings

Calabresi & Melamed, “Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability:  One View of the Cathedral”

Coase, “The Problem of Social Cost” 

Demsetz, “Toward a Theory of Property Rights”

Epstein “All’s Quiet on the Eastern Front”

Hardin, “The Tragedy of the Commons”

Landsburg, “Why I am not an environmentalist”

Llewellyn, “Remarks on the Theory of Appellate Decision and the Rules or Canons about how Statutes are to be Construed”

Passell “Disputed New Role for Polls”

Polinsky, “Ch. 2 & 15:  Equity and Efficiency”

Polinsky, “Ch. 17:  The Problem of Valuation”

Polinsky,  “Ch. 16 A Summing Up”