Simmons v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co.

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• holding that plaintiff’s allegations that his employer “cursed and screamed at him in public” and “continually ordered him from job to job to the accompaniment of cursing and shouting” did not satisfy the extreme and outrageous element
• stating that a stringent standard for intentional infliction of emotional distress is particularly applicable to disputes in the workplace

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