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Massachusetts Appeals Court· 7/14/2000

Quinn v. Walsh

Citations

  • 49 Mass. App. Ct. 696
  • 732 N.E.2d 330

How courts have described this case

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

  • arguing, in dicta, that situations where “the circumstances are such that the resulting damage is ‘inherently unknowable’ ” are excepted from the contemporaneous knowledge requirement
  • affirming dismissal of claim, against man who had conducted an openly adulterous affair with plaintiffs wife, for intentional infliction of emotional distress
  • openly conducted extramarital affair did not constitute outrageous conduct to support a cause of action for intentional infliction of emotional distress
  • deliberately conducting affair with another’s wife in such a way as to make it public knowledge in community to humiliate him not sufficiently extreme and outrageous
  • label attached to pleadings should not govern their substance
  • amatory actions abolished by G. L. c. 207, § 47B.

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Judges: Duffly

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Cites

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