Should the Court Impose Liability? on Who? for What?

Should the Court Impose Liability? on Who? for What?

<p> CLASS PROBLEM #1</p><p>Defendant Taylor Swift was recently driving her 1959 Edsel home from work. At the same time plaintiff Miley Cyrus was working in the bicycle shop owned and operated by herself and her husband, Justin Bieber. Without warning Taylor’s car crashed through the wall of the shop and struck Miley, causing her personal injuries, and also causing extensive damage to the shop and to the bicycles that were in the shop.</p><p>Taylor testified that on the day in question she became unconscious during an epileptic seizure. She did not recall the accident, and her last recollection before the accident was leaving a stop light after her last stop. Her first recollection after the accident was being taken out of her car in Miley's bicycle shop. Defendant testified that she has a medical history of epilepsy and knows of no other possible reason for her loss of consciousness except an epileptic seizure.</p><p>Prior to 2014 defendant had been examined by several neurologists who concluded that her condition could be controlled by a particular medicine, and she was placed on that medication. She used the medicine regularly during the intervening years and has not had a seizure since, until the accident. She testified that she had no warning as to this seizure.</p><p>Should the court impose liability? On who? For what? </p>

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