Coalition against Regressive Taxation v. Roberts

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• approvingly citing cases where obscene language and phone 13 calls, among other slightly-oppressive-but-otherwise-mundane events, failed to constitute 14 “outrageous behavior”
• explaining that conduct must be “extreme and outrageous conduct” that is “so 25 outrageous in character, and so extreme in degree, as to go beyond all possible bounds of 26 decency . . . and utterly intolerable in a civilized community.” (citation omitted)
• finding no outrageous conduct where crew member on cruise ship remarked in the plaintiff’s hearing after her husband fell overboard that her husband was probably dead and that his body would be sucked under the ship, chopped up by the propellers, and would probably not be recovered
• federal maritime law applies to torts that occur on navigable water and bear a substantial relationship to traditional maritime activity
• “A cruise line passage contract is a maritime contract governed by general federal maritime law.”
• “While we do not regard the Restatement (Second

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