Armoneit v. Ezell

How courts have described this case

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• viewing the summary judgment evidence in its entirety and deciding no fact issue was raised as to whether the article was published with actual malice
• stating this definition of assault and noting, “ ‘[a] battery is the willful touching of the person of another[] and has been said to be the consummation of the assault.’ ”
• finding, on review of summary judgment, the defendant-employer’s statements were “evidence [of] an assault in that the ‘harm’ in an assault is the fear or apprehension of imminent peril, which is exactly what Employer intended”
• “A battery is the willful touching of the person of another, and has been said to be the consummation of the assault.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).