Torts: Basic Fluency in a Fundamental Legal Language (Revised)

Resource 2 . 1 . 6 . 4 . 1

8 minutes

Picard v. Barry Pontiac-Buick, Inc. ("The Finger on the Camera Case")

Jordan Wallace-Wolf

Does the defendant need to touch the body of the plaintiff to commit battery?

Supreme Court of Rhode Island

654 A.2d 690

93-221-A

1995-02-09

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