# WV black lawmaker gets email with KKK graphic and anti-abortion message...also sues. Is this right?

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**Created:** [February 21, 2022, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv-black-lawmaker-gets-email-with-kkk-graphic-and-anti-abortion-message-also-sues-is-this-right/959845 "2022-02-21T00:09:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv-black-lawmaker-gets-email-with-kkk-graphic-and-anti-abortion-message-also-sues-is-this-right/959845/142 "2022-03-08T18:55:36Z")

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> [@MrDibble](#):
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> Easily countered by the fact that it _did_ cause exactly such trauma.

The question is whether a person sending the email would or should have known the email is certain or substantially certain to cause trauma. That the email actually did cause trauma, as a matter of consequence, is (IMO) irrelevant when determining whether the author should be liable in court.

~Max

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