United States v. Delis

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “offensive touching,” which can include “spitting on another,” constitutes simple assault, as criminalized by 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(5)
• observing that “distinction between assault and battery . . . has been regularly elided” and the “two terms have often been used interchangeably”
• observing that “distinction between assault and battery . . . has been regularly elided” and “two terms have often been used interchangeably”
• noting that the terms assault and battery are often used interchangeably
• defining battery as “the unlawful beating of another” and noting that “[t]he least touching of another’s person willfully, or in anger, is a battery”
• appeal from “conviction [and] . . . sentence of time served plus a $10 fine entered after a bench trial” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).