tort liability

Battery is the intentional infliction of harmful or offensive physical contact with another person without consent. It is both an intentional tort and a crime. 

• assault
• battery
• tort law
• tort liability
• criminal law

• international law
• corporations
• Alien Tort Statute
• tort liability

Oral argument: Feb. 28, 2012

Appealed from: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (Sep. 17, 2010)