Comments on: “Walmart sued after teen steals machete and kills her Uber driver”

By: cecil

cecil — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 17:48:18 +0000

so they want the headline to change to walmart employee killed by shoplifter?

By: gasman

gasman — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 17:48:27 +0000

According to the suit, “As Eliza Wasni was exiting the store with the machete and knife she had not purchased, she was not stopped, questioned in any way, or asked to show a receipt by an employee and/or agent of Walmart.”

A little less the adversarial system would permit the judge to ask such probing questions of the plaintiff, such as: had the murderer paid cash for the same machete, what legal theory of liability would the plaintiff attach to Walmart.

By: Rachel Maines

Rachel Maines — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 11:56:28 +0000

To an historian, the expression “reasonably foreseeable” is in the same class as “round square.”