Bradshaw v. Swagerty

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• finding trial court was “fully justified” in regarding epithets “nigger,” “bastard” and “knot-headed boy” as “ ‘mere insults’ of the kind which must be tolerated in our rough-edged society”
• racial epithets were “ mere insults’ of the kind which must be tolerated in our rough-edged society.”
• \[T]he trial court was fully justified in regarding the [racial] epithets complained of here as `mere insults' of the kind which must be tolerated in our roughedged society.\
• “[T]he trial court was fully justified in regarding the [racial] epithets complained of here as ‘mere insults’ of the kind which must be tolerated in our roughedged society.”
• in addition to loss of reputation, plaintiff pleaded humiliation and embarrassment; because the alleged slander was not defamatory per se, no rep-utational harm was recoverable, and the humiliation and embarrassment did not constitute special damages
• “nigger,” “bastard,” “knot-headed boy” mere insult; not actionable

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