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Texas Supreme Court· 8/27/2004

Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. v. Zeltwanger

Citations

  • 144 S.W.3d 438
  • 21 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 1266
  • 47 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 981
  • 2004 Tex. LEXIS 733
  • 94 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 683
  • 2004 WL 1908322

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  • holding that defendant’s actions must be “beyond all possible bounds of decency” and “utterly intolerable in a civilized society” to establish extreme and outrageous conduct for IIED claims
  • holding that when “the issue presented a pure legal question which did not affect the jury’s role as fact finder, the post-verdict motion [can be] sufficient to preserve error”
  • holding that when “the issue presented a pure legal question which did not affect the jury’s role as fact finder, the post-verdict motion [can be] sufficient to preserve error”
  • holding that “[s]exual harassment is one form of prohibited employment discrimination” under TCHRA
  • noting that the TCHRA is modeled after Title VII and that \federal case law may be cited as authority in cases relating to the Texas Act\
  • noting that the tort of IIED exists only to \`supplement existing forms of recovery by providing a cause of action for egregious conduct' that might otherwise go unremedied\

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Judges: Phillips, Hecht, Owen, Jefferson, Wainwright, Brister, O'Neill, Smith, Schneider

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