• Preface • Introduction • 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 • Conclusion • Notes • Selected Annotated Bibliography • Index