Coleman v. Housing Authority

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that although some of the incidents standing alone would not amount to actionable infliction of emotional distress, the repetition, over plaintiff's protests, could be found to have a cumulative effect
• recognizing that although some of the incidents standing alone would not amount to actionable infliction of emotional distress, the repetition, over plaintiff’s protests, could be found to have a cumulative effect
• stating that, without sufficient evidence to support an action for IIED against one defendant, “the causes of action against the other defendants [including negligent hiring], which are essentially derivative, must fall”
• finding severe emotional distress where the plaintiff “presented evidence of physical manifestations (headaches, crying, chest pains) as well as mental and emotional symptoms (upset, despondency, depression)”
• sexual harassment in the workplace

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).