Description |
x, 200 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Keep your hands to yourself : assault and battery -- Keep your hands to yourself II : civility between the sexes -- Trespasses to property : a man's home is his castle -- Nuisance : trespass's messier companion -- Stevens v. Hay, etc.: how bad things can get -- Outrageous! the intentional infliction of severe emotional distress -- Sticks and stones can break your bones : verbal abuse -- Badgering : by telephone, on the street, and by computer chip -- Nasty words : blasphemy, obscenity, and cursing -- Gossip gone bad : defamation -- Incivility incarnate : litigation -- Revenge by litigation : wrongful civil proceedings |
Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-191) and index |
Subject |
Law -- United States -- Anecdotes.
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Right and wrong.
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Law and ethics.
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Civil society.
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Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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Author |
Plant, Nancy K., 1960-
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LC no. |
2003005457 |
ISBN |
1555535763 : |
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