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Intentional infliction of emotional distress is different than just "emotional distress." It isn't meant to compensate people for feeling bad. It is meant to compensate and to punish someone for their intentional "extreme and outrageous" conduct. I think the property owners are refering to the urinating on the property, nudity, and other inappropriate conduct. According to the courts, the conduct has to rise to the level of being beyond that of any civilized society. Personally, I don't think this conduct is severe enough but a jury might. At the very least, these SAE's have really bad manners.
Also, the request for damages shouldn't be taken seriously. Many states have laws which say that you can't recover more than you ask for. This encourages lawyers to ask for way more than they every intend to get. In fact, technically it is considered malpractice not to ask for an overly large amount. As a lawyer, if you ask for less than the jury comes back with and your client can't get the whole award because you asked for too little, you are liable for the difference.
I'm not meaning to give a lesson on law or anything but the newspapers tend to sensationalize these suits and it makes the claims seem totally frivolous when they're not.
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