“The essential elements to pleading a claim for battery under California law are: 1. The defendant either touched the plaintiff or caused the plaintiff to be touched with the intent to harm or offend the plaintiff; 2. The plaintiff did not consent to the touching; 3. The plaintiff was harmed or offended by the defendant’s conduct; and 4. That a reasonable person in the plaintiff’s situation would have been offended by the touching.”
[California Elements of an Action [certain citations omitted]]
