In NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., 458 U.S. at p. 924 102 S. Ct. at pp. 3431-3422 (1982), the United States Supreme Court held that Charles Evers and the NAACP could not be held liable in tort for business losses incurred during a boycott of White merchants in Claiborne County, Mississippi, even though some of those losses could undoubtedly be attributed to a number of acts of violence directed at Black individuals who did not participate in the boycott. The federal high court held that there was simply insufficient evidence of their authorization of the wrongful conduct. The NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. court noted these specific incidents: Shots were fired at a house in two cases. Someone threw a brick through a windshield. Tires were slashed. Someone damaged a flower garden. One NAACP member took away a man's whisky bottle bought from a White merchant. Four men grabbed nd beat up a fisherman who failed to observe the boycott. (458 U.S. at pp. 904-906 102 S. Ct. at pp. 3420-3422.) And there was an incident in which a "group of young blacks apparently pulled down the overalls of an elderly brick mason known as 'Preacher White' and spanked him for not observing the boycott." ( Id. at p. 905 102 S. Ct. at p. 3421.)