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Intentional infliction of emotional distress (IIED; sometimes called the tort of outrage) [1] is a common law tort that allows individuals to recover for severe emotional distress caused by another individual who intentionally or recklessly inflicted emotional distress by behaving in an "extreme and outrageous" way. [2]
The emotional distress for which monetary damages may be recovered, however, ought not to be that form of acute emotional distress or the transient emotional reaction to the occasional gruesome or horrible incident to which every person may potentially be exposed in an industrial and sometimes violent society. . . .
Snyder v. Phelps, 562 U.S. 443 (2011), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held that speech made in a public place on a matter of public concern cannot be the basis of liability for a tort of emotional distress, even if the speech is viewed as offensive or outrageous.
The lawsuits allege gross negligence, negligent misrepresentation and intentional infliction of emotional distress against the district and intentional inflection of emotional distress and civil ...
Bongolan is entitled to damages, the lawsuit claims, because she “has suffered, and continues to suffer, injuries and damages including physical injury, and mental and emotional distress” as a ...
It lists sexual battery, sexual assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress as causes of action. The incident, per the lawsuit, took place when Schuman was 18 at Carter’s apartment ...
Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 (1988), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held that parodies of public figures, even those intending to cause emotional distress, are protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
Williams was fearful for his safety and that of the other witnesses, the lawsuit said. As a result of Chauvin and Thao’s conduct, the lawsuit alleged, Williams has endured emotional distress ...