Creation of civil action — Damages
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case Carver v. Citizen Utilities Co. (1997)
Most recently applied in Strong v. HMA Fentress County General Hospital, LLC (July 2016)
Acts 1990, ch. 908, § 1; 1996, ch. 675, § 8.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) There is hereby created a civil cause of action for malicious harassment.
(2) A person may be liable to the victim of malicious harassment for both special and general damages, including, but not limited to, damages for emotional distress, reasonable attorney's fees and costs, and punitive damages.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.