Agis v. Howard Johnson Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• firing waitresses in alphabetical order until one admitted theft sufficient to state a claim of outrageous conduct
• firing waitresses in alphabetical order until one admitted theft sufficient to state a claim of outrageous conduct
• firing employees in alphabetical order until one of them admitted stealing could constitute outrageous conduct
• noting that to state such a claim, a plaintiff must allege, among other things, “that the actor intended to inflict emotional distress or that he knew or should have known that emotional distress was the likely result of his conduct”
• allowing loss of consortium claim predicated on spouse’s intentional infliction of emotional distress claim
• “the underlying purpose of such action is to compensate for the loss of the companionship, affection and sexual enjoyment of one’s spouse”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).