Beecy v. Pucciarelli

How courts have described this case

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• holding that claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress involving erroneous commencement and prosecution of collection action should have been dismissed for failure to state a claim because such conduct was not outrageous
• holding that \mere commencement of litigation to enforce a claim which the person commencing the litigation knows or reasonably should have known to be groundless\ does not constitute abuse of process \without proof of any ulterior purpose\
• holding that “mere commencement of litigation to enforce a claim which the person commencing the litigation knows or reasonably should have known to be groundless” does not constitute abuse of process “without proof of any ulterior purpose”
• observing that nature of adversary system precludes adverse party’s reliance on opposing party’s attorney
• noting that even mere \wilful and wanton conduct does not constitute malicious conduct\
• noting that even mere “wilful and wanton conduct does not constitute malicious conduct”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).