Johnson v. Bollinger

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that although the alleged conduct at issue was offensive, it did not constitute the extreme conduct essential to an intentional infliction of emotional distress claim
• explaining that “[w]hile words alone may not constitute assault, words may render the actor liable if, in combination with other acts or circumstances, they put the other person in reasonable apprehension of an imminent harmful or offensive contact with his person”
• affirming the trial court’s dismissal of the plaintiff’s claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress when the plaintiff’s “complaint on its face reveal[ed] the absence of facts sufficient” to support an element of the tort
• discussing the trial court’s broad discretion to grant a dismissal with or without prejudice
• finding no extreme or outrageous conduct when an animal control officer confronted plaintiff in close physical proximity with cursing and angry threats, stating “I will get you,” in the presence of a firearm
• motion to dismiss is not responsive pleading, though trial court’s dismissal of complaint terminates right to amend

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).