Battery Accuser of Dodgers’ Bauer Says State Ruling Irrelevant

A woman charging Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer with battery and sexual battery told a federal court in California that her claims aren’t barred by a state trial court ruling denying her request for a domestic violence restraining order against him.

The state court “neither actually nor necessarily decided whether Bauer battered or sexually battered” her, Lindsey Hill said in a filing Thursday in the US District Court for the Central District of California.

In denying Hill’s petition for a DVRO, the state court “expressly considered and expressly denied Hill’s Petition for a DVRO on the basis that there ...