Update (Nov. 3, 2011): The battery charges against Rob Lauer were dismissed this week.

Update (Jan. 22, 2011): Former Nevada secretary of state candidate Rob Lauer has filed a libel and defamation lawsuit against the woman who had accused him of battery. At issue are some of her statements made to the media and to me (and that were subsequently included in blog posts on this website).

Note: The headline of this blog post has been edited to remove the words “With Assault”. Lauer was accused of assault by Von Tobel in her characterizations of the incident, but he was not formally charged with assault (by the strict legal definition). And as noted above, the case was dismissed in November.

Remember this story about Secretary of State candidate Rob Lauer allegedly assaulting Las Vegas local Jennifer Von Tobel at the now infamous First Friday Nevada Happy Hour at Stoney’s on the south Las Vegas strip last month?

David McGrath Schwartz writes that according to police, surveillance video from Stoney’s confirmed Von Tobel’s account of the event and a criminal complaint has now been filed against Lauer for misdemeanor battery.  His court date is August 24.

Memory refresher if you have forgotten the details:

Lauer was accused of manhandling Jennifer Von Tobel who, we discovered later, is (1) a professional political fundraiser and (2) suffers from a weakened physical condition as a result of having multiple sclerosis.  Lauer flatly denied the allegations, saying he was just showing Von Tobel some sweet self defense moves from his glory days as a military police officer.

In a police report filed later that night, Von Tobel claimed she got a sprained wrist and inflamed shoulder that forced her to wear a sling as a result of the assault.  Lauer also filed a police report, claiming Von Tobel (1) was drunk and (2) grabbed his right buttock and put him in a headlock and then challenged him to demonstrate a reverse wrist lock.

(A police spokeswoman says that case has been suspended.)

A few days after the incident, Lauer pestered Von Tobel at an event they were both attending, and she promptly filed a restraining order against him.  Fast forward to today.

Convicted or not, I’d say Mr. Lauer’s shot at the Secretary of State’s office is, as it ever was, slim to none.

And Slim is at off at military summer camp working on his sweet moves.