Beecroft v. Great Northern Railway Co.

How courts have described this case

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• upholding jury’s damage award for intentional infliction of emotional distress and finding punitive damage award unwarranted
• upholding jury's damage award for intentional infliction of emotional distress and finding punitive damage award unwarranted
• refusing to set aside an emotional distress damage award even in the absence of direct evidence supporting claim
• refusing to set aside an emotional distress damage award even in the absence of direct evidence supporting claim
• stating \the concern `that a claim for emotional distress without any physical trauma may permit a jury to have a rather openhand in the assessment of damages.'\
• upholding jury finding that employee was terminated in retaliation for exercising rights under Veterans Reemployment Rights Act, rather than for employee’s refusal to submit to drug screening test

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).