Read the following story and indicate the appropriate tort in the blank space provided.

 

Jennifer and Giorgio were classmates at Cleghorn College in Arkansas. Though Giorgio, a male student from Italy, thought he and Jennifer, a female student from Michigan, were only friends, she fell in love with him and had decided to marry him at all costs, the fact that Giorgio was not aware of. She began to slip into his yard every night and watch him sleeping through the open window. She never hurt or disturbed anything in the yard, she just watched him.

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Unfortunately Jennifer did not know that Giorgio and his fiancée (невеста) Mary whom he met before had decided to marry but had not announced their engagement. Because Mary was completing her studies at the University of Texas at Austin, Jennifer never saw Mary – that is until Christmas break, when Jennifer found out that Giorgio was not sleeping alone anymore.

Jennifer was shocked – her dreams crashed. Then she decided to talk to Mary. She cornered Mary in the ladies’ room at the local movie, locked her in a toilet stall, and would not let her out, all the while telling about her affection to Giorgio and asking Mary to leave him. After twenty minutes or so, Mary agreed to give up Giorgio, and Jennifer released her.

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Mary had lied, as Jennifer understood very soon while watching through Giorgio’s window.

Jennifer became furious. The next day she met Giorgio and Mary at church and cried terrible insults at Mary, calling her the most bad names and threatening with revenge. Mary was so distressed that she fell into real panic. Later she got sick, couldn’t sleep, lost appetite and was really afraid.

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Not satisfied with that Jennifer began following Mary and bumping, elbowing and tripping (ставить подножку) her whenever possible though it always appeared to be an accident on Jennifer’s part.

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Mary can take no more. She seeks legal help from you, the new hot lawyer in town.

Advise what Mary can do in order to defend herself.

 

 

Exercise 4