Bridges v. Winn-Dixie Atlanta, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that even though employer knew of employee’s low emotional threshold brought on by her multiple sclerosis, there was no liability for insensitive demands for polygraph and for termination based on her refusal to cooperate
• physically ill employee forced to take polygraph test and then accused by superiors of lying and stealing
• defendant’s “knowledge that the [plaintiff] is particularly susceptible to emotional distress” is relevant to determining outrageousness
• special knowledge held by defendant employer of plaintiff employee’s multiple sclerosis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).