Word: papenfuss
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Winona called him a son of a bitch three times-prefaced by the adjectives "little" and "goddam." The occasion was a public debate over an urban-renewal plan that may affect a building owned by Beatty. After the controversy Beatty filed a slander suit against the name-caller, Jerry Papenfuss...
...throwing out that lawsuit, the Minnesota supreme court recently ruled that calling a public figure an s.o.b. is not in itself defamatory. While Papenfuss's remarks displayed some ill will, said the court, Beatty had failed to prove "malice"-as the law requires. Moreover, Beatty admitted that the epithet had not hurt his law practice. "Calling a man a son of a bitch, unworthy as it is in public debate," concluded the court, "could not be reasonably construed as an actual reference to his ancestry or even to his general character...