Jeter v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• noting that under New York law, which generally follows the Restatement, “an IIED claim does not turn on a distinction between action and omission”
• explaining that “a claim for IIED may not be sustainable where the conduct complained of falls well within the ambit of other traditional tort liability” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• affirming that IIED is a “highly disfavored tort under New York law . . . to be invoked only as a last resort” (citations omitted)
• noting that under New York law, which generally follows the Restatement, “an IIED claim does not turn on a distinction between action and omission”
• noting that under New York law, which generally follows the Restatement, “an IIED claim does not turn on a distinction between action and omission”
• noting that intentional infliction of emotional distress “remains a highly disfavored tort under New York law.” (cleaned up)

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