Jones v. Southern Railway

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• noting that “[n]ormally, the severity-of- contact threshold for battery is so low as to be nearly nonexistent, requiring only a ‘harmful or offensive contact.’”
• finding that a correctional officer’s placement of an inmate against the wall could constitute a battery
• finding that correctional officer could not have “reasonably and honestly” believed that slamming plaintiff into the wall was “the minimum force necessary to resolve the situation”
• “An ‘officer can be held liable for assault and battery if he uses excessive force.’”
• “As to the intent required to commit a battery, the Restatement (Second

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