Abdul-Malik v. AirTran Airways, Inc.

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• holding that conduct was not extreme and outrageous where the defendants asked the plaintiff “if he was Muslim [and] called him a terrorist and a liar”
• holding plaintiff failed to produce evidence of severe emotional distress when plaintiff alleged he suffered from sleeplessness and weight gain but did not take medication or seek professional help
• sleeplessness and weight gain insufficient to establish severe emotional distress because plaintiff failed to seek professional help
• comments in meeting calling plaintiff a terrorist and a liar were insufficient to establish IIED
• “While unpleasant, the [alleged] sleeplessness and weight gain [were] not so severe that no reasonable person could be expected to endure them.”
• “Emotional distress includes all highly unpleasant mental reactions[.] . . . It is only where it is extreme that liability arises. The law intervenes only where the distress inflicted is so severe that no reasonable person could be expected to endure it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).