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CARR v. WAL-MART STORES, INC.

Commercial Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Plaintiff proved the elements necessary to sustain a "falling merchandise" cause of action under Louisiana law.

BECKEL v. WAL-MART ASSOC., INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
A threat of retaliation cannot be used as a basis for equitable estoppel to extend the statute of limitations in a Title VII suit for sexual...

PATTEN v. WAL-MART STORES EAST, INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Supervisors' mentioning of a disability in the context of an adverse employment action cannot, without more, constitute direct evidence of...

ORR v. WAL-MART STORES, INC.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
A diabetic did not have an actual disability under the ADA or Nebraska Fair Employment Practices Act, and the claim that eating is a major life...

LETOURNEAU LIFELIKE ORTHOTICS & PROSTHETICS, INC. v. WAL-MART STORES, INC.

Civil Procedure, ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
A prosthetic health care provider lacked standing to bring an action, for payment for replacing part of a prosthetic device furnished to a health plan...

WAL-MART STORES, INC. v. REECE

Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Evidence that a premises owner's employee was in close proximity to a dangerous condition right before plaintiff fell, is not legally sufficient to...

MAZOUREK v. WAL-MART STORES, INC.

Commercial Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
In an assessment of tangible personal property within stores, an appraiser may include sales tax in the original cost paid on the property, where the...

WAL-MART STORES, INC. v. RLI INS. CO.

Contracts, Insurance Law, Product Liability
Indemnity agreement between chain store and vendor established that vendor intended to indemnify store for any claims related to the sale of a...

JANES v. WAL-MART STORES, INC.

Labor & Employment Law
Jury's implicit finding, that employer did not have good cause to terminate employee who was discovered to have cooked and eaten employer's expired...

MCKOWN v. WAL-MART STORES, INC.

Injury & Tort Law
A hirer of an independent contractor is liable to an employee of the contractor under tort theories insofar as the hirer's provision of unsafe...