Kentucky Fried Chicken National Management Co. v. Weathersby

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that the employer/employee relationship may be significant factor in determining whether there is liability for tort of IIED
• finding that conduct did not “reach the level of outra-geousness the tort requires,” in a case where plaintiff suffered a nervous breakdown in response to her demotion from store manager to assistant manager
• requiring a showing of “opprobrious behavior that includes truly outrageous conduct” and which exceeds “all bounds usually tolerated by decent society”
• finding no extreme and outrageous misconduct where an employer required an employee to submit to a polygraph test, accused her of theft, and demoted her, even though the employee was hospitalized for psychiatric treatment
• “[T]he tort is to be used 23 sparingly and only for opprobrious conduct that includes truly outrageous conduct.”
• “I asked [Wilder] do you work for the IRS? And he said no. And I said so why do you do their paperwork?’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).