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Words That Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name Calling

Published 8 March 2018
Richard Delgado
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Abstract

The tort is also known as "intentional infliction of emotional distress."See id.at737 n.1, 565 P.2d at 1174 n.1 (quoting Restatement (Second) of Torts § 46(1) (1965) : "One who by extreme and outrageous conduct intentionally or recklessly causes severe emotional distress to another is subject to liability for such emotional distress.").

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