Hoffman v. Hill and Knowlton, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• conduct not outrageous where employer stated false, pretextual reasons for dismissing employee and spread rumors about him

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Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Kerrigan v. Britches of Georgetowne, Inc.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1997-09-23· cited 119×
• Crowley v. North American Telecommunications Ass'n
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1997-04-10· cited 99×
• Richard v. Bell Atlantic Corporation
  District of Columbia· 1996-11-25· cited 39×
• Dale v. Thomason
  District of Columbia· 1997-04-10· cited 19×
• Messina v. Fontana
  District of Columbia· 2003-05-08· cited 18×
• Black v. National Football League Players Ass'n
  District of Columbia· 2000-02-02· cited 16×
• Martin v. Arc of the District of Columbia
  District of Columbia· 2008-03-28· cited 14×
• Hamilton v. City of Washington, District of Columbia
  District of Columbia· 2012-04-05· cited 13×
• Underwood v. Archer Management Services, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 1994-07-12· cited 8×
• Ben-Kotel v. Howard University
  District of Columbia· 2001-08-15· cited 8×
• Bryant v. the Orkand Corp.
  District of Columbia· 2005-03-21· cited 7×
• Ayissi-Etoh v. Fannie Mae
  District of Columbia· 2011-09-23· cited 7×
• Asare v. LM-DC Hotel, LLC
  District of Columbia· 2014-07-07· cited 7×
• Asare v. Loews Hotels
  District of Columbia· 2014-07-07
• Hu v. K4 Solutions, Inc
  District of Columbia· 2020-03-12
• Bullock v. Hana Security Services
  District of Columbia· 2025-01-10

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Conley v. Gibson
  Supreme Court· 1957-11-18· cited 30,380×
• Warth v. Seldin
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-25· cited 10,875×
• Howard University v. Best
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1984-11-09· cited 300×
• Roger Asay v. Hallmark Cards, Inc.
  Eighth Circuit· 1979-03-19· cited 134×
• Hais v. Smith
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1988-09-21· cited 55×
• Judd Gregg, U.S. Congressman v. William J. Barrett, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Acting Public Printer
  D.C. Circuit· 1985-10-08· cited 47×
• Ridgewells Caterer, Inc. v. Nelson
  District of Columbia· 1988-06-28· cited 17×
• Cunningham v. United National Bank of Washington
  District of Columbia· 1989-05-04· cited 4×