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[4] Courts had been reluctant to accept a tort for emotional harm for fear of opening a "wide door" to frivolous claims. [5] A change first occurred in the Irish courts, which repudiated the Australian railroad decision and recognised liability for "nervous shock" in the Byrne (1884) and Bell (1890) cases. [6]
The allegation of “alienation of affection” now faces NC House Speaker Tim Moore in a recent lawsuit. ... has been facing a lawsuit filed in 2020 by a Bladen County commissioner who alleges ...
A Mecklenburg County jury awarded $1.4 million in May 2001 to a former wrestling coach against P, after the coach's wife left him for P (the jury verdict was later reduced by the North Carolina Court of Appeals as excessive). A year 2000 verdict of $86,250 for alienation of affections and $15,000 for criminal conversation in the case of Pharr v.
Legg, the Supreme Court of California was the first court to allow recovery for emotional distress alone – even in the absence of any physical injury to the plaintiff – in the particular situation where the plaintiff simply witnessed the death of a close relative at a distance, and was not within the "zone of danger" where the relative was ...
One of the key cases involved a lawsuit against the Gaston County Board of Education that alleged the board dismissed numerous complaints against former wrestling coach Garry Scott Goins for ...
After years of waiting, supporters and opponents of allowing lawsuits over child sex abuse that occurred decades ago finally had their say before North Carolina’s highest court. The North ...
Also, permitted the courts to defer judgment regarding a person's need for commitment, to the doctor(s) 14th 1979 Parham v. J.R. The Court ruled that minors may be civilly committed to mental health facilities without an adversary hearing; in essence, parents do have the right to commit their children. 14th 1982 Youngberg v. Romeo
North Carolina puts thousands of children in harm’s way by failing to fix the state’s broken child welfare system, says a federal class action complaint filed on behalf of nine foster children.