Tour Overview
Welcome to the American Museum of Tort Law, the only museum in the world dedicated to the law of wrongful injury and the powerful right to trial by jury.
Tort law protects everyday people. It holds corporations and institutions accountable when they cause harm and plays a vital role in keeping our products, workplaces, food, health, and environment safer.
As you follow the Tort Trail, you’ll explore landmark cases, interactive exhibits, dangerous toys, and the famous Corvair, and see firsthand how the law works. Along the way, you can quiz yourself with short questions that test your knowledge and sharpen your understanding.
In the words of our founder, Ralph Nader:
“Tort law enables the little guys to bring the big boys to justice.”
Let’s begin!
Stops
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Stop 1: Ford Pinto-Grimshaw and Gray v. Ford
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Stop 2: Liebeck v. McDonalds
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Stop 3: Nader v. General Motors Corp.
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Stop 4: Cipollone v. Liggett Group
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Stop 5: The Flaming Rat Case
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Stop 6: Asbestos Borel v. Fibreboard Paper Products Corp.
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Stop 7: Toys That Kill: Cunningham v. Quaker Oats, Fisher Price Division
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Stop 8: Dalkon Shield - A.H. Robins Company, Inc. v. 1000s of plaintiffs
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Stop 9: Kline v. 1500 Massachusetts Avenue Apt. Corp., 1970
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Stop 10: Donald v. United Klans of America
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Stop 11: McCormack v. Hankscraft Co., Inc., 1967
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Stop 12: Carol Burnett v. National Enquirer
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Stop 13: Galella v. Onassis
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Stop 14: Anderson v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. 1996
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Stop 15: Brown v. Kendall
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Stop 16: Byrne v. Boadle
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Stop 17: Sioux City v. Pacific R.R.
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Stop 18: MacPherson v. Buick
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Stop 19: T.J. Hooper v. Northern Barge Corp.
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Stop 20: U.S. v. Carroll Towing
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Stop 21: Greenman v. Yuba Power
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Stop 22: Canterbury v. Spence
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Stop 23: Hoffman v. Jones
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Stop 24: Tarasoff v. Regents
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Stop 25: Daubert v. Merrell Dow
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Stop 26: Fundamentals of Tort Law