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assault and battery

NOUN
physical harmful attack
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The man Kesha sued over a decade ago for sexual assault and battery co-wrote and co-produced ten out of the eleven tracks on Perry’s last album, "143."

From Salon ● May 16, 2025

Attention will now turn to a civil lawsuit filed by Mr Neely's father, who is seeking damages for alleged civil assault and battery.

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2024

The case in Dedham, Massachusetts, before Judge Paul McCallum was the first to be filed, with prosecutors in July 2021 charging McCarrick with three counts of indecent assault and battery.

From Reuters ● Aug. 30, 2023

But the jury found in favor of Crocker and against Nazario’s claims of assault and battery and false imprisonment.

From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2023

He would make no attack to be put in the wrong, arrested, perhaps, after the Colbury interpretation of assault and battery.

From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree


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