Rhonda Jeremiah, As Personal Representative of Tamir Lake v. VI Department of Human Services, Lutheran Social Services of the Virgin Islands, Lutheran Services for Developmentally Disabled, Inc.

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• phrase “ ‘those bastards’ ” could only be understood as a “mere epithet” expressing “a strong emotional feeling of dislike” rather than “as statements of fact”
• Court of Appeals said use of the word “bastard” to describe police could not reasonably have been read to accuse the plaintiffs of having been born out of wedlock
• where there is no rational nexus between forum state and out-of-state events giving rise to cause of action, state has no interest in litigation and is not a constitutionally permissible forum.
• concurring opinion of Judge Rives
• concurring opinion of Judge Rives

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