Football Player Can’t Show that Coach’s Insults Caused ‘Severe Emotional Distress’

A state court judge in Connecticut has sided with Pop Warner Football in a case in which it was sued by a father, who claimed that various team officials committed intentional infliction of emotional distress when they called his son names in an attempt to motivate him.   In granting the defendant’s motion for summary judgment, the court wrote that the boy “did not suffer distress so severe that no reasonable man could be expected to endure it.”   Pasquale Civitella, on behalf of