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- From: tquinn@heartland.bradley.edu (Terry Quinn)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Stores can't "detain" shoplifters
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 20:41:47 -0600
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- Dave says . . .
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- > As far as I'm concerned, I'll never step foot in another Disney Store
- > again.
- >
- > If we were detained and the mall's security section and the local
- > police were called, I'd be filing a humoungous lawsuit against the
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > Disney Store and the mall itself.
-
- I believe that in a lawsuit, you have to demonstrate that the
- amount for which you are suing must in some way relate to actual
- damages, including a reasonable amount for pain and suffering.
- While you can sue for anything, I doubt you would win a
- "humoungous" amount for simply being detained.
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- Fortunately, the legal system is not always the lottery that some
- people think it is, even though tele-lawyer-vultures would have us
- believe differently.
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- Terry Quinn
- Germantown Hills, IL
- tquinn@heartland.bradley.edu
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