Seventh Circuit· 4/7/2010

Fox v. Hayes

Citations

600 F.3d 819
2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 7154
2010 WL 1337738

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”

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Judges: Flaum, Evans, Williams

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