Laura Anne Aiello v. Providian Financial Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a plaintiff must first show that she suffered a financial loss before being “permitted to piggyback a claim for damages for incidental emotional distress”
• stating that the automatic stay is “financial in character: it is not protection of peace of mind”
• concluding that emotional damages are not compensa-ble
• recognizing “a high threshold for proof of damages for emotional distress”
• recognizing “a high threshold for proof of damages for emotional distress”
• “[Bankruptcy judges are not selected with reference to their likely ability to evaluate claims of emotional injury”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).