Ranft v. National Associates, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding defendant’s actions could not be “separated into segments” when deciding whether the victim was physically helpless
• rejecting argument that touching was “too fleeting” to establish sexual gratification element because statute “does not require that actual gratification occur, but only that the touching be for that purpose”
• videoelectronic surveillance of dentist suspected of sexually abusing female patients while they were heavily sedated upheld
• video surveillance is inherently highly intrusive

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).