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From: ekwok@cadcvs.intel.com (Edward C. Kwok)
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Subject: Re: Flamage re Mark Ethan Smith/Netiquette
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Date: 7 Jan 88 17:33:58 GMT
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The opportunity to discuss first year law school is irresistable:

In article <229*manis@instr.camosun.bcc.cdn> manis@instr.camosun.bcc.cdn (Vincent Manis) writes:
>Please let's not get in another dispute about freedom of speech: neither
>the U.S. Bill of Rights nor the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
>protects other people's right to puke on my shoes.

I believe the act of "puking on another's shoe" done intentionally constitute a 
prima facie case of a civil battery (or at least "offensive contact"). You can
recover quite a bit of punitive damage, pain and suffering award and so
forth, if you were puked in public and suffered much emotional distress from
the embarassment.