Ledsinger v. Burmeister

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• holding that evidence of a merchant using a racial slur as he was ejecting plaintiff from a store sufficed to state an intentional infliction of emotional distress cause of action
• holding that evidence of a merchant using a racial slur as he was ejecting plaintiff from a store sufficed to state an intentional infliction of emotional distress cause of action
• finding a triable issue on the extreme and outrageous requirement where a store owner made racial epithets at a man while ejecting him from his public business
• racial insults hurled at plaintiffs as defendant ejected them from his place of business
• use of racial slurs in course of throwing plaintiff out of defendant’s retail store could be considered extreme and outrageous conduct under circumstances, such that summary dismissal of related claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress was error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).