Walker v. Boeing Corp.

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• finding 22 testimony lacked foundation where the individual did not have personal knowledge of the subject
• “Terminating an employee for improper discriminatory reasons, like many adverse personnel management decisions, is insufficiently extreme or outrageous to give rise to a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress.”
• “Terminating 23 an employee for improper or discriminatory reasons, like many adverse personnel management 24 decisions, is insufficiently extreme or outrageous to give rise to a claim for intentional infliction of 25 emotional distress.”
• “Terminating an 2 employee for improper or discriminatory reasons, like many other adverse personnel 3 management decisions, is insufficiently extreme or outrageous to give rise to a claim for 4 intentional infliction of emotional distress.”
• personal injury statute of limitations applies to common law negligence and defamation claim arising from a wrongful termination
• “Moreover, because Walker’s termination was an intentional act, it also 4 cannot give rise to a claim for [NIED].” (footnote and citation omitted)

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