Nasty emails

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If someone sends you a nasty email containing extreme foul language, such as calling you a F---in pig and more, can you press charges?

Asked 11/5/2009 under Criminal Defense | 198 View(s) | More Legal Topics

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No. People are allowed to be insulting, crude, profance, etc. If there is a pattern of abusive emails, and/or they get threatening, then there may be a case for harassment, stalking, or a related claim. However, one or two emails, if they are "simply" foul and nasty, do not give rise to any legal claims.

A nonlegal suggestion: it may be possible to set your email system/program to not accept emails from this person. Or if someone is sending it from a work account, you could possibly contract the person's employer and point out what they are doing from their official work email.

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