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SNYDER v. PHELPS 

ALITO, J., dissenting 

VI 

Respondents’  outrageous  conduct  caused  petitioner
great injury, and the Court now compounds that injury by
depriving  petitioner  of a  judgment  that  acknowledges  the
wrong he suffered.

In order to have a society in which public issues can be
openly and vigorously debated, it is not necessary to allow 
the  brutalization  of  innocent  victims  like  petitioner. 
I 
therefore respectfully dissent. 

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the judgment on the claim of civil conspiracy can survive in light of the

ultimate disposition of the IIED and intrusion upon seclusion claims.