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Intentional infliction of emotional distress (IIED; sometimes called the tort of outrage)[1] is a common law tort that allows individuals to recover for severe emotional distress caused by another individual who intentionally or recklessly inflicted emotional distress by behaving in an "extreme and outrageous" way.[2] Some courts and commentators have substituted mental for emotional, but the tort is the same.[1]
- ^ a b Cusimano, Gregory S. "Tort of Outrage". LexisNexis. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
- ^ Hayden, Paul T. (1993), "Religiously Motivated "Outrageous" Conduct: Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress as a Weapon Against 'Other People's Faiths'", William & Mary Law Review, 34 (3): 579