Sullivan v. Malta Park

ROSEMARY LEDET, Judge.

| ,This appeal involves a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress. (“IIED”) by a non-client, Judith Sullivan, against her adversary’s lead attorney, F Evans Schmidt.1 From the trial court’s* judgment granting Mr. Schmidt’s peremptory exception of no cause of action, Ms. Sullivan appeals.2 The narrow issue presented is whether, in the context of a discovery deposition, a defense attorney, posing offensive questions to a seventy-year-old, medically impaired plaintiff who was living in an assisted living facility and alleged to be terminally ill, constitutes…