Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
North Carolina’s lack of assessment and treatment services results in people with severe mental disabilities languishing in county jails while waiting months for psychiatric services, a lawsuit ...
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]
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
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. . . .
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Her suicide by coproxamol overdose on September 28, 1997, became widespread news, after reports indicated she was repeatedly harassed and taunted, particularly about her weight, by a group of her peers. Subsequently, 5 youths, between the ages of 13 and 17, were convicted of intentionally harassing Yeomans in the months leading up to her death.