189 results for 'cat:"Emotional Distress"'.
J. Mortensen finds that the district court properly granted summary judgment to a mother on her adult daughter's emotional distress claims. The mother's communications with her daughter were attempts at reconciliation, though possibly insensitive to the history of sexual abuse by the mother's husband that led to the daughter's removal from the mother's home as a child. The daughter's negligent sexual abuse claim failed because a neighbor's warning to the mother about her husband's inappropriate behavior around children was not sufficient to put the mother on notice that her daughter was at risk. Affirmed.
Court: Utah Court Of Appeals, Judge: Mortensen, Filed On: January 19, 2024, Case #: 20220207-CA, Categories: Negligence, emotional Distress
J. Benavides finds that the trial court properly granted summary judgement in favor of a couple, the Galvans, on defamation and emotional distress claims against another couple, the Crews. Some of the claims were properly dismissed based on the Texas Citizens’ Participation Act, while the others were barred by res judicata. The Crews couple allege the trial court extended the summary judgment deadlines in violation of the scheduling order. However, the court overrules this allegation due to no authority being cited or adequately briefed. Affirmed.
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals, Judge: Benavides, Filed On: January 18, 2024, Case #: 13-22-00289-CV, Categories: Anti-slapp, Defamation, emotional Distress
J. Kirsch allows the stepsister to continue with her amended complaint alleging that she was sexually assaulted by her four adult stepbrothers when she was a minor in the 1970s. There is no bad faith or dilatory motive in the woman's amendments, as the proposed amendments only add details in response to the stepbrothers' claims that the complaint lacked specificity. The complaint was timely filed because the statute of limitations had been tolled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Court: USDC New Jersey, Judge: Kirsch , Filed On: January 17, 2024, Case #: 3:21cv20270, NOS: Other Personal Injury - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Negligence, emotional Distress
J. Hunt denies a school board’s motion to dismiss intentional infliction of emotional distress and failure to protect claims, brought by the parent of a bullied child. Over the course of several years, the child suffered repeated acts of physical and sexual assault by other students, including being stabbed with pencils, being kicked and punched, and having his genitals groped. The parent says teachers and staff knew of these incidents and were indifferent to them, and the court finds the parent alleged these claims sufficiently to survive dismissal motions.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Hunt, Filed On: January 16, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv4745, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Negligence, emotional Distress, Assault
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J. Reiber finds that the trial court properly entered a civil stalking order against a citizen to protect his neighbor following two altercations concerning a private road they shared. The citizen argues that the trial court erred in considering his two acts of physical violence as threats, and his actions were privileged in defense of personal property. The neighbor had to seek medical attention after the second incident and fears for her safety. His behavior does qualify as threatening and the citizen’s actions were not a defense of property.
Court: Vermont Supreme Court, Judge: Reiber, Filed On: January 12, 2024, Case #: 23-AP-221, Categories: Property, emotional Distress, Restraining Order
J. Trauger grants the two dismissal motions filed in this lawsuit brought by a former fraternity pledge who alleges that he was subjected to racial discrimination and "intense hazing." As to one of the fraternity members, there are no facts alleged to show that he "participated in tortious conduct." Another is alleged to have "regularly used racial slurs," but the complaint fails to show that the member "breached a duty to the plaintiff or caused him serious emotional injury."
Court: USDC Middle District of Tennessee , Judge: Trauger, Filed On: January 8, 2024, Case #: 3:22cv808, NOS: Other Personal Injury - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Civil Rights, Education, emotional Distress
J. Mazzant grants summary judgment to the apartment complex owner and dismisses most of a former tenant's claims that stem from his arrest by federal agents for threatening messages he posted on social media while in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021. The former tenant's claim for wrongful eviction fails since the evidence indicates he "voluntarily vacated his apartment" when the apartment owner posted a notice to vacate. Also, the invasion of privacy claim fails since it was federal law enforcement who executed the search warrants and arrested the tenant at his apartment, and the apartment owner's disclosure of the tenant's rental application to the federal agents was not an "act of intrusion."
Court: USDC Eastern District of Texas , Judge: Mazzant, Filed On: January 3, 2024, Case #: 4:22cv787, NOS: Rent Lease & Ejectment - Real Property, Categories: Landlord Tenant, Tort, emotional Distress
J. Vasquez finds a lower court improperly denied a minor child's guardian's motion to allow her to testify in court alongside her facility dog. A judge ruled that the child was only entitled have her service dog accompany her before and after trial in the back of the courtroom. However, the state presented sufficient evidence in court that the service dog's presence would not "bolster" the credibility of a witness. Vacated.
Court: Arizona Court Of Appeals Division Two, Judge: Vasquez, Filed On: December 29, 2023, Case #: 2 CA-SA 2023-96, Categories: Civil Rights, emotional Distress
J. Walters finds the Appeals Court properly overturned the trial court’s dismissal of an individual's negligence claim after her husband was accidentally shot and killed on a camping trip and struck her claim for emotional distress damages. “Plaintiff has pleaded facts sufficient to give rise to a legally cognizable common-law negligence claim for emotional distress damages.” Reversed.
Court: Oregon Supreme Court, Judge: Walters, Filed On: December 29, 2023, Case #: S069409, Categories: Negligence, emotional Distress, Firearms
J. Stiglich finds the district court properly entered a default judgment awarding damage for emotional distress and extorted money. The internet company employee threatened to publish the CEO's personal information, extorting money and cryptocurrency. Although the extortion claim was not properly pleaded in the action, the claim is supported by theories of conversion and unjust enrichment.
Court: Nevada Supreme Court, Judge: Stiglich , Filed On: December 28, 2023, Case #: 85214, Categories: Tort, emotional Distress, Civil Extortion
J. Lawson grants the county summary judgment in claims contending officials fabricated evidence to falsely convict plaintiff of murder in 1994 because plaintiff released the county from liability by accepting a settlement under Michigan’s Wrongful Imprisonment Compensation Act. However, a detective may have fabricated critical incriminating evidence, and thus claims may proceed against her.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Michigan, Judge: Lawson, Filed On: December 19, 2023, Case #: 2:21cv12070, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Malicious Prosecution, emotional Distress
J. Mahan denies the school district's motion to dismiss the claims of intentional infliction of emotional distress filed by the parent of an autistic 5-year-old. A teacher's assistant allegedly witnessed a teacher abusing the special education student on many occasions, and the teacher allegedly locked the child in a darkened bathroom for singing a nursery rhyme, regularly left students unattended, used corporal punishment and pain-compliance techniques, and modified her classroom door so that it could not be opened by the students.
Court: USDC Nevada, Judge: Mahan , Filed On: December 18, 2023, Case #: 2:23cv564, NOS: Amer w/Disabilities - Other - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Education, emotional Distress
J. Contreras grants default judgment and awards more than $49 million to a man who was held and tortured by the Syrian Arab Republic for more than 1,200 days. He has shown Syria is liable for intentional infliction of emotional distress, false imprisonment and battery.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Contreras, Filed On: December 8, 2023, Case #: 1:21cv2730, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: Terrorism, Damages, emotional Distress
J. Nagala grants, in part, the employer's motion to dismiss, ruling the employee's hostile work environment claims are in no way related to the charges raised in her administrative complaint with the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities and, therefore, must be dismissed for a failure to exhaust administrative remedies. Furthermore, the employer's decision to send the employee home on a day where she experienced extreme morning sickness and her ultimate termination for "a lot of medical issues" cannot be used as the basis for an emotional distress claim.
Court: USDC Connecticut, Judge: Nagala, Filed On: December 7, 2023, Case #: 3:23cv684, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Procedure, emotional Distress, Employment Discrimination
J. Boasberg grants, in part, a motion for default judgment filed by victims of Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks and their families. An estate and family members have sufficiently supported their claims for wrongful death and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Boasberg, Filed On: December 5, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv3859, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: Terrorism, emotional Distress, Wrongful Death
J. Breder denies as moot a former employee’s motion to enter physical exhibits and the employer’s motion to dismiss the complaint in this employment lawsuit. However, the employee did indicate the that he is “unable to function” due to the incident of being detained and arrested by the employer. The court will grant the employer’s motion to dismiss the amended complaint, giving the employee leave to amend his emotional distress and conspiracy claims only.
Court: USDC Maryland, Judge: Bredar, Filed On: November 30, 2023, Case #: 1:23cv1993, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment, emotional Distress
J. Brann dismisses certain employment discrimination claims contending a 49-year-old family medicine resident had been subjected to a non-consensual neuropsychological evaluation and denied transfer to the Guthrie/Robert Packer Hospital's anesthesiology program in retaliation for requesting adaptive learning materials for attention deficit disorder. The resident failed to prove the hospital intended to cause emotional damage or that the hospital had been contractually obligated to grant the transfer.
Court: USDC Middle District of Pennsylvania, Judge: Brann, Filed On: November 22, 2023, Case #: 4:23cv1136, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment, emotional Distress, Contract
J. Trauger grants the dismissal motions filed by the metro defendants and the district attorney defendants in this lawsuit brought by a property owner who allegedly experienced "flooding and erosion issues" and did not receive help from the water services department in mitigating the problem. The property owner's claims for malicious prosecution, libel and intentional infliction of emotional distress should all be dismissed against the metro defendants. Also, the district attorney defendants are "immune from suit on claims against them for actions taken in their role as advocates for the state."
Court: USDC Middle District of Tennessee , Judge: Trauger, Filed On: November 16, 2023, Case #: 3:22cv936, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Immunity, Defamation, emotional Distress
J. Sutton finds the lower court erroneously dismissed a fired CEO's tort claims against comedian Kathy Griffin because her tweets, which tagged the CEO's company and were shared with more than two million followers, provided the necessary contacts in the state of Tennessee to establish jurisdiction for the CEO's tort claims. Griffin revealed the CEO lived outside Nashville and urged her followers to contact his employer, a Tennessee-based company, to fire him, all of which directly targeted Tennessee and established jurisdiction for his tort claims. Reversed.
Court: 6th Circuit, Judge: Sutton, Filed On: October 31, 2023, Case #: 23-5257, Categories: Tort, emotional Distress, Jurisdiction
J. Gordon grants Hilton’s motion to dismiss this suit alleging disability discrimination, harassment and retaliation brought by the former employee. Claims focus mostly on conduct by police, who the employee says have harassed and stalked her at Hilton’s direction. The allegations are conclusory and do not plausibly allege extreme and outrageous conduct or severe emotional distress.
Court: USDC Nevada, Judge: Gordon, Filed On: October 23, 2023, Case #: 2:23cv988, NOS: Amer w/Disabilities-Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: emotional Distress, Employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation
J. Hodges finds that the trial court properly entered a default judgment awarding the individuals damages in a negligence and emotional distress action arising after they were forced to hide in their vehicle during a hail of gunfire at an apartment complex owned by the company. The allegations in the individuals' complaint sufficiently showed that violent crimes had occurred on the property before and that the company should have foreseen that the incident at issue in the action could have occurred. The complaint also set forth sufficient allegations to support a claim for emotional distress damages under the pecuniary loss exception to the impact rule. Affirmed.
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals, Judge: Hodges, Filed On: October 19, 2023, Case #: A23A1079, Categories: Damages, Negligence, emotional Distress