Shaffer v. National Can Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that common law cause of action for intentional infliction of emotional distress not supplanted by state discrimination statute
• finding wrongful discharge claim should have been brought pursuant to PHRA because “[t]he interests sought to be vindicated by this cause of action are identical to those protected by the PHRA”
• plaintiff’s claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress based on continued course of sexual advances, followed by refusals and ultimately retaliation, survived motion to dismiss
• advancement conditional on submission to sexual relations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).