Grimm v. US West Communications, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• stating \the plaintiff is the master of [her own] complaint\ and may \intentionally craft her petition\ to avoid certain legal issues
• reversing the grant of a motion to dismiss and noting that the plaintiff “could simply have alleged in general terms the elements of an intentional-infliction-of- emotional distress claim and survived [the] motion to dismiss”
• reversing the grant of a motion to dismiss and noting that the plaintiff “could simply have alleged in general terms the elements of an intentional-infliction-of- emotional distress claim and survived [the] motion to dismiss”
• “We address issues presented in a motion to dismiss based on facts apparent on the face of the petition or conceded by the plaintiff.”
• preemption improper, particularly in the context of a motion to dismiss, where the plaintiffs intentional infliction of emotional distress claim was not disguised as a sexual-orientation discrimination claim
• considering facts conceded by the plaintiff

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