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A common case would be a future threat of harm that would not constitute common law assault but would nevertheless cause emotional harm to the recipient. IIED was created to guard against this kind of emotional abuse, thereby allowing a victim of emotional distress to receive compensation in situations where he or she would otherwise be barred ...
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 Hutelmyer case. In 1997, a jury in Alamance County awarded $1 million to Dorothy Hutelmyer, who argued in court that a secretary in her husband’s insurance office had intentionally wooed him ...
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. . . .
Gov. Roy Cooper, DHHS Secretary Kody Kinsley, Mecklenburg County and others failed to fix a broken system, the lawsuit says.
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A federal defender's case load is usually substantially lower than her or his state counterpart's. While a state public defender may have to juggle over one hundred cases, an Assistant Federal Public Defender routinely has 30-50 cases, though the severity and complexity of such cases may be greater.
From left to right, attorneys Elizabeth Troutman and Robert King, represented the Gaston County Board of Education in a North Carolina Supreme Court hearing on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2024.