Pleаse reаd the fоllоwing excerpt. Wishnаtsky v. Huey584 N.W.2d 859. Opiniоn Martin Wishnatsky appealed a summary judgment dismissing his battery action against David W. Huey,. We conclude, as a matter of law, that no battery occurred, and we affirm the judgment and the order. On January 10, 1996, Huey, an assistant attorney general, was engaged in a conversation with attorney Peter B. Crary in Crary's office. Without knocking or announcing his entry, Wishnatsky, who performs paralegal work for Crary, attempted to enter the office. Huey pushed the door closed, thereby pushing Wishnatsky back into the hall. Wishnatsky reentered the office and Huey left. Wishnatsky brought an action against Huey, seeking damages for battery. Huey moved for summary judgment of dismissal. The trial court granted Huey's motion and a judgment of dismissal was entered. Wishnatsky appealed, contending the evidence he submitted in response to Huey's motion for summary judgment satisfies the elements of a battery claim and the trial court erred in granting Huey's motion. . . . "In its original conception [battery] meant the infliction of physical injury." [] By the Eighteenth Century, the requirement of an actual physical injury had been eliminated: Blackstone explained: “The least touching of another's person willfully, or in anger, is a battery; for the law cannot draw the line between different degrees of violence, and therefore totally prohibits the first and lowest stage of it: every man's person being sacred, and no other having a right to meddle with it, m any the slightest manner.” On the other hand, "in a crowded world, a certain amount of personal contact is inevitable, and must be accepted." [Prosser & Keeton]. The American Law Institute has balanced the interest in unwanted contacts and the inevitable contacts in a crowded world in Restatement (Second) of Torts §§ 18, 19 (1965): 18. Battery: Offensive Contact(1) An actor is subject to liability to another for battery if(a) he acts intending to cause a harmful or offensive contact with the person of the other or athird person, or an imminent apprehension of such a contact, and(b) an offensive contact with the person of the other directly or indirectly results. * * * 19. What Constitutes Offensive ContactA bodily contact is offensive if it offends a reasonable sense of personal dignity.Comment a to section 19 explains what kind of conduct offends a reasonable sense of personaldignity: In order that a contact be offensive to a reasonable sense of personal dignity, it must beone which would offend the ordinary person and as such one not unduly sensitive as tohis personal dignity. It must, therefore, be a contact which is unwarranted by the socialusages prevalent at the time and place at which it is inflicted. Huey moved for summary judgment of dismissal, because, among other things, "as a matter of law, a battery did not occur on January 10, 1996." Huey supported the motion with his affidavit stating in part: 8. That Attorney Crary and I had settled into a serious discussion about the case and hadestablished a good rapport when the door to his office suddenly swung open without aknock. An unidentified individual carrying some papers then strode in unannounced. Ihad not been told that anyone would be entering Attorney Crary's office during theprivate meeting .... I subsequently learned that the individual's name is MartinWishnatsky. Wishnatsky responded to Huey's motion for summary judgment with an affidavit of Crary and with his own affidavit stating in part: 1. I am a born-again Christian and cultivate holiness in my life. [A]s a result I amvery sensitive to evil spirits and am greatly disturbed by the demonic. However, in Christthere is victory.2. On January 9, 1996, Mr. David Huey of the North Dakota Attorney General'soffice, visited the ministry where I was working at 16 Broadway in Fargo, North Dakotawith an ex parte court order.3. The following morning I entered the office of Peter Crary, an attorney for whom Ido paralegal work, to give him certain papers that had been requested. Mr. Crary wasspeaking with Mr. David Huey at the time. As I began to enter the office Mr. Huey threwhis body weight against the door and forced me out into the hall. I had not said a word tohim. At the same time, he snarled: ''You get out of here." This was very shocking andfrightening to me. In all the time I have been working as an aide to Mr. Crary, I havenever been physically assaulted or spoken to in a harsh and brutal manner. My bloodpressure began to rise, my heart beat accelerated and I felt waves of fear in the pit of mystomach. My hands began to shake and my body to tremble. Composing myself, Ireentered the office, whereupon Mr. Huey began a half-demented tirade against me andstormed out into the hall. I looked at Mr. Crary in wonder. We certainly agree with the Supreme Court's determination that when Wishnatsky attempted to enter the room in which Huey was conversing with Crary, "Huey apparently reacted in a rude and abrupt manner in attempting to exclude Wishnatsky from that conversation." As a matter of law, however, Huey's "rude and abrupt " conduct did not rise to the level of battery. The evidence presented to the trial court demonstrates Wishnatsky is "unduly sensitive as to his personal dignity." Restatement (Second) of Torts§ 19 cmt. a (1965). Without knocking or otherwise announcing his intentions, Wishnatsky opened the door to the office in which Huey and Crary were having a private conversation and attempted to enter. Huey closed the door opened by Wishnatsky, thereby stopping Wishnatsky's forward progress and pushing him back into the hall. The bodily contact was momentary, indirect, and incidental. Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to Wishnatsky, and giving him the benefit of all favorable inferences which can reasonably be drawn from the evidence, we conclude Huey's conduct in response to Wishnatsky's intrusion into his private conversation with Crary, while "rude and abrupt," would not "be offensive to a reasonable sense of personal dignity." In short, an "ordinary person ... not unduly sensitive as to his personal dignity" intruding upon a private conversation in Wishnatsky's manner would not have been offended by Huey's response to the intrusion. We conclude that Huey's conduct did not constitute an offensive-contact battery, as a matter of law, and the trial court did not err in granting Huey's motion for summary judgment dismissing Wishnatsky's action. Affirmed.
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