in court cases within westlaw an online legal database for lawyers.n 10,000 court cases. but could those records become sanitized? at a time of heightened sensitivity to issues of race and offensive words, many schools across the country have been confronting the fall-out often pursues after a professor or student directly quotes a slur in a legal case. a law professor was reinstated to his former position after placed on administrative leave for using slurs last year. one apologized after reading the "n" word aloud in class while quoting a case. it comes from cutrutgers law scl in new jersey. the professor turned to a 1993 supreme court case and discussing how a criminal defendant could be held liable for crimes committed by his coconspirators. the state's supreme court justice, in his opinion on the case, quoted the defendant who used a racial slur. here is what the rutgers student then repeated. quote. in april, a group of black first-year students at rutgers law began circulating a petition calling for the creation of a policy on racial slurs whic