1. a) A torts professor is frantically preparing his problem set for class. A group of students bars his office door, hoping to save themselves from the problem set. The door remains barred for three hours, but the harried professor never tries to leave. Shortly before class the janitor notices the bar and removes it. The professor proceeds to class without knowing that he had been a prisoner all afternoon.
2. b) P is working at a bank. D, the bank security guard, believes P has stolen some money. When P goes into the bank's storeroom, D locks the door from the outside. D holds P for several hours before the bank manager returns from his golf lesson. During this time P repeatedly asks to be released.
3. c) Assume the same facts as the problem above. After imploring D to release him, P tries to climb out the open window. The building is on the 2nd floor. P falls, dislocating his shoulder.
4. d) The assistant dean for student coddling asks the torts professor to go easy on student P because P's brother just committed suicide over a bad grade report at Big City Law School. The professor, believing that lawyers must be tough, calls on P and asks her to recite on a brutal case where a sibling witnesses a runaway car kill her brother. When P declines to recite, the professor reminds her of his Draconian class participation policy.
5. e) P is hiking along a well traveled mountain trail. Suddenly he loses his balance and begins to slide down the mountain. D rushes to his aid. Grabbing P's arm, D breaks his fall. Unfortunately, P's arm is dislocated in the process.
6. f) P is hiking in the mountains. D is cutting trees a few hundred feet higher, but directly above P. As a prank, D rolls a small rock toward P. The rock gains momentum and soon dislodges other rocks. The falling rocks trip P. As he clamors for a handhold, he dislocates his shoulder.
7. g) ABC college has two Native American mounds on campus. They are believed to have been built for ceremonial and marking point purposes, rather than for burial. Students on campus are known to go to the mounds at night for partying and other purposes. Some students have driven over the mounds in large 4-wheel drive vehicles. The college became concerned about preserving the mounds and place large free standing concrete barriers around them as well as signs warning people to stay off the mounds.