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In March 2009, a Baltimore County, Maryland, jury awarded the nearly 300 plaintiffs $150 million. [3] [4] The awards consisted of $300,000–$1,000,000+ for the value of their homes, $4,000–500,000 for medical expenses or monitoring depending on family size and age of its members, and an average of $1 million for emotional stress.
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 families of victims in the Capital Gazette shooting and some newspaper employees who survived the deadly 2018 attack dismissed civil charges against The Baltimore Sun and Tribune Publishing ...
Officials at a high school in Maryland say they are investigating the origins of a video making its rounds on social media this week that depicts a student verbally bullying and threatening a ...
Ultimately, Young instituted a federal habeas action. The court determined that the Community Protection Act was civil and, therefore, it could not violate the double jeopardy and ex post facto guarantees. On appeal, the Court of Appeals reasoned that the case turned on whether the Act was punitive "as applied" to Young. [5] 5th
Maryland police have DNA matching Rachel Morin murder suspect and video images. Rachel Morin’s mother breaks silence on daughter’s killing. 07:59, Josh Marcus. The mother of Rachel Morin has ...
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 former chief medical examiner for Maryland who testified on behalf of the officer accused of killing George Floyd is a defendant in a federal lawsuit over the death of a man who died under ...