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152968P.pdf 08/10/2016 Grace Gillis v. The Principia Corporation
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 15-2968
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Gruender, Circuit Judge, and Ketchmark,
District Judge]
Civil case - Contracts. None of the documents or university policies
plaintiff points to created a contractual relationship, and the district
court did not err in finding plaintiff had failed to state a claim for
breach of contract; allegations of plaintiff's complaint detail, at most,
indignities, petty oppressions, and other trivialities which do not create
a cause of action under Missouri law governing intentional infliction of
emotional distress; under Missouri law, plaintiff's claim for negligent
infliction of emotional distress failed as she did not allege her
emotional distress of mental injury was medically diagnosable.