United States Fifth Circuit

In a personal injury action arising from an altercation involving plaintiff-restaurant customer and an off duty restaurant employee, a multi-million dollar judgment pursuant to a jury verdict for plaintiff is affirmed primarily where the evidence supported a reasonable jury's findings that the defendant fast food restaurant operator's negligent failures to regulate, train, supervise, and control its off-duty employees on its premises were proximate causes of plaintiff customer's quadriplegia.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/01/2008
• Published 04/02/2008

Judges

• DENNIS, Circuit Judge:, Before DAVIS, DENNIS and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph Cashe Langston, R.H. Burress, III, The Langston Law Firm, Booneville, MS, John G. Corlew (argued), Joseph Collins Wohner, Jr., Charles Clark, Kathy K. Smith, Watkins & Eager, Jackson, MS, David Zachary Scruggs, Scruggs Law Firm, Oxford, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellee., W. Scott Welch, III (argued), Bradley S. Clanton, Bradley Clayton Moody, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, Jackson, MS, Lamar Bradley Dillard, Mitchell, McNutt & Sams, Tupelo, MS, Bradley Farel Hathaway, Campbell, DeLong, Hagwood & Wade, Greenville, MS, for Defendant-Appellant.