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Nineteen families of the students and teachers killed or injured at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, announced Wednesday they have settled a lawsuit with the city for $2 million and said ...
The families of 19 of the victims in the Uvalde elementary school shooting in Texas on Wednesday announced a $500 million federal lawsuit against nearly 100 state police officers who were part of ...
The lawsuits allege the school district knew about the abuse and did not tell parents or police. The school is located in the Myrtle Beach area. Parents suing Horry County Schools over abuse of ...
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. . . .
Less than two days later, Adriana killed herself in her home as “a result of the emotional distress, humiliation, and embarrassment she experienced,” according to a lawsuit filed by her family ...
In most common law jurisdictions, there was no common law right to recover civil damages for the wrongful death of a person. [3] Under common law, a dead person cannot bring a suit (under the maxim actio personalis moritur cum persona), and this created an anomaly in which activities that resulted in a person's injury would result in civil sanction, but activities that resulted in a person's ...
Their children, the Douglases say, suffered emotional and mental distress, the "loss of ability to focus on school" and civil rights violations. They're seeking damages in excess of $10,000.