Castro

I. BACKGROUND

Appellant brought an initial suit against Spurgeon Painting Inc. (Spurgeon) and its owner and operator, Thomas Meacham, and then added certain defendants in a Second Amended Complaint, including Tija Buckalew, Spurgeon’s human resources manager. Generally, appellant alleges that Spurgeon once employed her; that during her employment, she suffered discrimination, retaliation, and other forms of workplace mistreatment; that she was ultimately terminated; and that all of these adverse actions were taken against her because she suffers from a medical disability. In the operative Third Amended Complaint, appellant pleads eight causes of action. The seventh cause of action in the Third Amended Complaint is for abuse of process and the eighth cause of action is for intentional infliction of emotional distress. Spurgeon, Meacham and Buckalew demurred to the Third Amended Complaint, attacking all eight causes of action. The trial court overruled the demurrer in part and sustained the demurrer in part, leaving a number of causes of action pending. With respect to the seventh and eighth causes of action, the court sustained the demurrer without leave to amend. Although there…