Burgess v. Taylor

How courts have described this case

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• stating that severe emotional distress consisted of panic attacks, depression uncured by medication or therapy, and thoughts of suicide requiring medical care after knowing that plaintiffs “babies were dead”
• finding severe emotional distress where a plaintiff established she “broke down,” suffered from many panic attacks, had major problems with high blood pressure, suffered from anxiety and depression, and contemplated suicide
• whether an award was given under the influence of passion or prejudice, and, therefore excessive, “is a question dependent on the nature of the underlying evidence[]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).