Wellllll, Hayden Panettiere and family weren’t celebrating that her dad was charged with battery.  Remember, he punched her mother and the cops were called?  They were out celebrating her brother’s birthday.

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More pictures after the birthday spankings…

Charges were filed in the afternoon and the press got hold of it and the story made headlines.  Again.  So what does a family do when they want privacy after such an ordeal?  Hit up a busy restaurant in Hollywood and pretend you’re trying to avoid cameras.  Yeah, that works!  DUH!

No comments were made as they left the dining experience…but what CAN they say.  If it was such a misunderstanding like they said before, why were charges filed?  And why didn’t mom go out to dinner?

Photos: PR Photos

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