Leang v. Jersey City Board of Education

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that Board of Education had no obligation to renew one year contract of non-tenured public school teacher
• recognizing that Board of Education had no obligation to renew one year contract of non-tenured public school teacher
• explaining that under New Jersey law, the tort of false imprisonment requires “lack of proper legal authority or legal justification” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting that public employees are entitled to good faith immunity where they “establish that [their] acts were objectively reasonable or that [they] performed them with subjective good faith.” (quotation marks omitted)
• permitting an intrusion upon seclusion claim to proceed where a coworker falsely reported that a teacher was threatening to kill people, leading to hospitalization and physically invasive searches
• “[An IIED plaintiff] must establish intentional and outrageous conduct by the defendant, proximate cause, and distress that is . . . so severe that no reasonable person could be expected to endure it.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).