Scott Gerber v. Stephen Veltri

GRIFFIN, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Scott Gerber appeals a judgment in favor of defendant Stephen Veltri entered following a non-jury trial on Gerber’s assault and battery claims. 1 Plaintiff, a law professor at Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law (ONU), alleged that defendant, then interim dean, “verbally berated and attacked Mr. Gerber as he grabbed and squeezed Mr. Gerber’s shoulder in a tight and strong fashion” during an encounter in the law school hallway. The district court found that Gerber failed to prove that Veltri assaulted or battered him. Because neither finding of…