Kramer v. Kroger Co., Inc.

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• suspending and investigating employee over missing cash, and employer's conditioning of employee's return on a demotion and liability release, was not so outrageous as to permit employee's recovery for intentional infliction of emotional distress
• fact that plaintiff s initials appeared on missing “cash drop” gave employer reasonable cause to suspend and investigate her; disciplinary action was not extreme or outrageous
• “defamatory or derogatory remarks regarding one’s employment generally do not rise to the level of extreme and outrageous conduct.” (citation modified)
• “[E]ven malicious, wilful [sic] or wanton conduct will not warrant a recovery for the infliction of emotional distress if the conduct was not directed toward the plaintiff.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).