My neighbor has been harassing me with constant noise complaints and threatening messages for months, even though I'm not doing anything wrong. I'm stressed out and losing sleep over this. Would I have any legal ground to sue them for the emotional distress they're causing?
The tricky part is that most jurisdictions require either extreme and outrageous conduct or some kind of physical manifestation of the distress - just stress and lost sleep usually isn't enough on its own. You'd want to talk to a local lawyer about whether your neighbor's specific behavior (the threatening messages might matter more than the noise complaints) crosses into illegal harassment or intentional infliction of emotional distress in your area, since the bar varies a lot.
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