Court Revives Injured Worker's Battery, IIED Claims Against Former Colleagues

A California appellate court revived a worker’s claims for battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress against three former colleagues for allegedly attacking him to recover a company-owned laptop. Case: Sadeghi v. Chen, No. B312596, 02/23/2023, unpublished. Facts: Iman Sadeghi is an award-winning computer graphics engineer who developed a novel digital hair rendering framework for the production of the Walt Disney Animation Studios movie "Tangled." Sadeghi joined Google as a software engineer in 2011. Hao Li, co-founder and chief executive officer of...