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The Dark Side of Teasing & Embarrassing Others
Most of us remember the tragedy that played out in England recently. Two shock jocks from Australia set out to play a prank on the British Royal Family. They called to inquire about the health of Kate...
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Collecting Damages from a Bully
Years ago a friend came to me with a problem; his son, about 14 years old, had been attacked by the neighborhood bully -– again. This time the bully drove the boy’s face into a chain-link fence and...
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Seeking Damages Part 1 of 2: Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
INTENTIONAL INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS: one of the simplest connections between bullying and the law can be seen in cases brought under this tort law theory. There is no battery here (physical...
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Seeking Damages Part 2 of 2: Four Elements to Claim IIED
In PART ONE of the Seeking Damages series, we discussed a case that clearly illustrated this general rule: an expert diagnosis of mental pathology resulting from intentional infliction of emotional...
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When School Systems Turn a Blind Eye to Bullying
You are introducing an important subject that you’d like to discuss with an authority figure. She claps her hands over her ears and blabbers “Blah, blah, blah…” until you give up and stop talking. She...
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Court Defines Bullying
“I know it when I see it.” Most of us can recognize that quote from, Jacobellius v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), wherein the Supreme Court struggled admirably to define obscenity, and then kind of gave...
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Bullying is Incompatible with American Character
“It is the inequality, abuse, and unfairness associated with bullying that makes it incompatible with what we conceive of as the appropriate “American character.” ~ Philip C. Rodkin, Bullying and...
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