Nairon v. Land

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting the invitation to extend the tort of negligent infliction of emotional distress to instances of improper use of the legal process based on a concern that it would upset the balance between free access to the courts and the need for a remedy for serious abuse of process
• plaintiff could not avoid requirements of abusive litigation statute by filing claims for negligent and intentional infliction of emotional distress resulting from the lawsuit
• plaintiff precluded from filing claims of infliction of emotional distress as remedy for abusive litigation
• “[A] plaintiff is precluded from filing a claim of either intentional or negligent infliction of emotional distress as a remedy for abusive litigation.”
• plaintiff precluded from filing claims of infliction of emotional distress as remedy for abusive litigation.
• “The gravamen of both emotional distress claims is the defendants’ act of filing an abusive lawsuit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).