Kobell ex rel. National Labor Relations Board v. Amalgamated Council of Greyhound Unions

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that the voluntary dismissal of a defendant “render[s] the motion to dismiss moot”
• declining to hold prison officials liable for intentional infliction of emotional distress based on their “nonfeasance or failure to intercede, even where [they] knew that misfeasance or harm was occurring or was likely to occur”
• Connecticut courts have been unwilling to hold defendants liable for IIED based on their nonfeasance, even in the face of known harm
• “[A] master is liable for the wilful torts of his servant committed within the scope of the servant’s employment and in furtherance of his master’s business.”
• “[F]or tort liability to be based on a theory of . . . aiding and abetting, the plaintiffs must have a viable claim for the underlying tort.”
• “Connecticut courts have been unwilling to hold defendants liable [on an IIED claim] for nonfeasance or failure to intercede, even where those defendants knew that misfeasance or harm was occurring or was likely to occur.” (internal quotation marks omitted; citing cases)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).