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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read it. Have lawyers in my family so free representation. If I were one of those teachers, I would sue the kid(s) (and therefore their parents) for intentional infliction of emotional distress, and maybe also libel, and would not settle. 
Hopefully their legal costs would make at least some the families lose their home, or better, everything down to the last shirt on their back. It would be hilarious! Then I'd create a Tiktok account and post a video about the whole thing.[/quote]

I'm a Plaintiff's lawyer.  A decent Plaintiff's lawyer can easily cause the other side to have to spend a quarter of a mil in defense costs.[/quote]

Also a lawyer and I'd be a little cautious here. [b]Intentional infliction of emotional distress is an extremely weak claim a[/b]nd rarely succeeds on its own so it's really mostly a libel or defamation charge. Under the right circumstances it could work but in most of these cases[b] it would be tossed on summary judgment [/b]because you would have no evidence of harm and the defendant could argue that it was clearly parody or that too few people saw it. Again with the right facts you could press a lawsuit that really cost them but in the vast majority of cases there would not be any evidence of most of the elements of these claims. [/quote]

+1000

But I'd add that it might not even be tossed on SJ, it would be tossed on motion to dismiss.

Also a lawyer. [/quote]

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