Fox v. Hayes

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “a particularly ugly insult” could sustain an IIED verdict for the plaintiff where the defendant knew the plaintiff “was particularly susceptible to emotional distress”
• holding that a police officer interrogating a murdered child’s parents about the murder knew that “the mother of a recently murdered child … was particularly susceptible to emotional distress”
• holding that an officer’s profanity-laced tirade against the mother of a recently murdered daughter was extreme and outrageous, reasoning that the officer “held [the mother’s] family life in the balance and he exploited his position of power to intentionally cause her distress”
• observing that “[t]here is no clear-cut analysis to determine what constitutes conscience-shocking conduct”
• explaining that in the similar context of a jury verdict, the plaintiff’s version of events governs, but “probable cause is determined from the perspective of what the officers knew at the time of the arrest”
• observing that “it does not take much to establish probable cause”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).