1- Stephanie sees a guy that has been teasing her all semester passed out drunk in a chair at a dorm party. She decides it is time for retaliation. She writes all over his face with permanent marker and then slaps him across the face several times. When he wakes up his face stings and he is mortified that everyone at the party is looking at him and laughing. Discuss whether he has a cause of action for battery, assault, both, or neither

2- Mabel wants to sue her neighbor for damages to her house and car made when a tree from the neighbor's yard falls on them. Would Mabel be suing for compensatory or punitive damages, or both? Discuss.

3- If the college newspaper writes an article stating that I (your Business Law Professor)fail most of my students and that I was arrested for DUI, neither of which is true, do I have cause of action for libel or slander. Am I likely to win? Discuss.