Althouse: The Westboro Baptist Church wins in the Supreme Court in the case about protesting at a soldier's funeral.: "Alito, the lone dissenter, stresses the value of the tort called 'intentional infliction of emotional distress':
Respondents’ outrageous conduct caused petitioner great injury, and the Court now compounds that injury by depriving petitioner of a judgment that acknowledges the wrong he suffered.
In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated, it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of innocent victims like petitioner."
I'm surprised Alito would take this position.
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