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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 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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
The burden of taking care of people with disabilities, such as schizophrenia, is falling to county jails, a new lawsuit says. NC accused in lawsuit of letting people with mental disabilities ...
Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled, 7–2, that a town and its police department could not be sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for refusing to enforce a restraining order, even though the refusal led to the murders of a woman's three children by her estranged husband.
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