Chestnut v. Norwood

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• rejecting theory that medical battery “should only apply in cases where the perpetrator acted with the intent to cause harm”
• “Our courts have found that unauthorized medical touching, similar to what happened to [plaintiff] when [defendant] worked on her lower teeth rather than her upper teeth [as consented to], is a battery sounding in tort.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).