It was the intentional and systematic infliction of great suffering masquerading as a legal process.
The current standard for the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress, for instance, is justifiably high.
The complaint also charges Isikoff engaged in fraud, negligent misrepresentation, unjust enrichment and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
So the doctrine came to mean vindication of truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent, but on oneself.
Apple's settlement strategy is unclear, but it seems like a shift from hell-bent vindictiveness to productive infliction of ongoing pain.
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In February, the Jefferses filed a lawsuit against Sacramento's Methodist Hospital alleging medical malpractice and negligent infliction of shock and emotional distress.
McGowen alleged sexual harassment, failure to prevent sexual harassment, disability discrimination, failure to prevent discrimination, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and other causes of action.
Adam Witherspoon, a founding employee at Color Labs, has filed a detailed lawsuit against his former boss Bill Nguyen and Color, alleging retaliation and infliction of emotional distress.
Erin Sieman and Christina Lee Stramaglia sued the 34-year-old star of "Wall Street" (1987) and "Platoon" (1986) in August on charges of battery, negligence and infliction of emotional distress.
She ruled that no evidence that Ms. Jones had offered or that her lawyers had discovered made out any viable claim of sexual harassment or intentional infliction of emotion distress.
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Five former clients of CAIR filed the two lawsuits in federal court alleging common law and statutory fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and intentional infliction of emotional distress against CAIR.
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C. and the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed a devastating legal brief supported by hundreds of pages of evidence, asking a federal judge to find the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) liable to five of its former clients for fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
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C. filed its reply brief in support of its motion for summary judgment in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of five former clients of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), who had earlier filed two separate lawsuits in federal court against CAIR, alleging common law and statutory fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
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