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This might be a bit of a threadjack, but you CAN sue for purely emotional distress. However, you'd need to get a team of shrinks to testify that you'd suffered some sort of impairment to your ability to live a happy and successful life as a result of the emotional injury, i.e. developed an anxiety disorder or depression or something. These guys don't have a shot in hell, unless they find a jury who wants to punish him for coming off as racist. I guess it's possible, but if they are serious, it seems likely it'll be settled before trial anyway.
I'd just heard the highlights previous to this thread. I hadn't heard any of the sotto voce commentary by Richards. I don't know that the whole thing was staged a la Kaufman, but he certainly seems MUCH more cognizant of what he was doing than, say, Mel Gibson did when he went on his anit-Semitic tirade. Certainly makes me wonder what the real point of it all was. Thanks for the links, Pan.
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