Posadas v. City of Reno

How courts have described this case

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• discussing situations in which the question of what constitutes extreme and outrageous conduct was a question reserved for a jury
• holding a police officer as a public official
• listing the 11 elements for an abuse of process claim under Nevada law
• “summary judgment ... is not to be granted if there is the slightest doubt as to the operative facts”
• “the non-moving party must, by affidavit or otherwise, set forth specific facts demonstrating the existence of genuine issue for trial”
• “The jury was entitled to determine, 19 considering prevailing circumstances, contemporary attitudes and [the appellant’s] own 20 susceptibility, whether the conduct in question constituted extreme outrage.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).