Boyle v. Wenk

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• holding that a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress should be assessed by examining the totality of the circumstances
• finding that it was reasonable for a jury to find that a private investigator’s threatening harassment and stalking of the plaintiff constituted extreme and outrageous conduct
• finding repeated harassment constituted extreme and outrageous conduct because it could “reasonably be viewed as an attempt to intentionally shock and harm a person’s peace of mind’ by invading the person’s mental or emotional tranquility”
• “Repeated harassment ... may compound the outrageousness of incidents which, taken individually, might not be sufficiently extreme to warrant liability....”
• “[tjhere is an issue for the jury if reasonable people could differ on whether the conduct is ‘extreme and outrageous’ ”
• “There is an issue for the jury if reasonable people could differ on whether the conduct is extreme and outrageous.”

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