How to Sue Wal-Mart
Interested in filing a lawsuit against Wal-Mart? Then check out the Wal-Mart Litigation Project, which comes complete with a list of cases in which people have sued Wal-Mart and won. The list appears to be a bit out of date, and it seems far too short to be comprehensive, but it’s still interesting to look at.
One thing that I learned from persuing the list of verdicts is that Wal-Mart seems to be a haven for the uncoordinated. Sure enough, read through it and you’ll see that a great many of the litigants simply have trouble staying upright. One of my favorite cases is that of the Oklahoma man who injured his “sphincter muscle nerve” when the climbing equipment he purchased at Wal-Mart gave way, causing him to fall out of a tree. He was awarded $213k, and his wife took in an additional $34k for “loss of consortium” (see definition #3).
The site also contains a variety of other interesting tidbits, including the fact that Wal-Mart is sued, for one reason or another, two to five times per business day in federal court alone. Another thing that you’ll learn is that Wal-Mart is very reluctant to settle out-of-court. I would be, too, if I got sued as much as they do. Finally, according to the site, juries seem reluctant to award large judgments to people suing Wal-Mart, and many attorneys are apparently reluctant to file suit against them. Fortunately for you, the site also has a searchable database of “Lawyers Who Sue Wal-Mart.” So what are you waiting for?
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Jose Anes
Comment by Jose Anes — Aug 23rd 2005 @ 7:31 am0.0000000479 owner of Walmart.
Hahaha, reminds me of those commercials back in the day with the “owners of Nike.”
Way to play into our over-litigious society Nickel…
Comment by jim — Aug 23rd 2005 @ 8:33 amOFFTOPIC
Have you had a chance to look at your site in an RSS reader lately? The actual content has the width of 1 word (all other screen realestate being taken up by the two side bars). Making it vary hard to read your enjoable posts.
Thanks
Comment by Reader — Aug 24th 2005 @ 8:55 pmI just checked the site feed in my newsreader and on BlogLines and it looks fine. I also haven’t heard of any problems from anyone else. I’m really not sure what the problem is, but the sidebars aren’t even a part of the feed, so they shouldn’t be showing up in an RSS reader at all. One possibility is that you somehow subscribed to the site url, rather than the feed url. To get the feed, just append /feed/ to the end of the url.
I am not having any problems with the feed.
Comment by Blaine Moore — Aug 24th 2005 @ 9:50 pmBlaine: Good the hear that things seem to be working. Thanks for your response.
Hey, injuring your “sphincter muscle nerve??? is a real “crappy” way to ruin your day!
Comment by FMF — Aug 26th 2005 @ 10:18 amBut it’s an easy way to make a butt load of money. Pun intended.
Ostrauder
Comment by Ostrauder — Aug 28th 2005 @ 7:49 pmhttp://over-indebtedness.blogspot.com/
MY MOM WAS FIRED FROM WALMART. THEY SAID SHE WAS YELLING AND THEY SAID SHE THREW PAINT AND WAS BEING INSABORDINATE SHE NEVER THREW PAINT AND ALTHOUGH SHE DID RAISE HER VOICE IT WAS IN THE OFFICE ALTHOUGH WALMART CLAIMS THAT SHE WAS SCREEMING IN FRONT OF OTHER PEOPLE.
MY MOTHER HAS A DEPRESSION PROBLEM AND THEY WERE AWARE OF THIS PROBLEM MAKING HER MORE EMOTIONAL THAN NORMAL.
SHE APPLYIED FOR UNEMPLOYMENT BUT WAS DENIED FOR BEING INSABORDINATE.
IS THERE A LAWYER OUT THERE THAT CAN HELP US TO SUE WALMART FOR WRONGFUL TERMINATION?
Comment by BRIDGET — Apr 10th 2008 @ 4:24 pmLooking for an attorney to help me sue Wal-Mart #2996 in Dallas, TX. My girlfriend helped me get a job there 4 months ago. I was unfairly fired recently. Story: The store manager sexually harassed my girlfriend. Shes stupid and gave in. I didnt know. I later went to work there. When I started, the manager harassed me and threatened me with violence. I even had to fight a stranger one day after work because of him. I complained to higher management for three months. They wouldnt take action, so I called the Walmart global ethics line and filed a report. after the investigation was done they fired my (ex)girlfriend, him, and me too! Stating workplace violence, when i was the victim! I was fired as retaliation for filing that report! I really need an attorney, so please help if u can. Seriously… simgross78@yahoo.com. 214-404-1332….
Comment by Simeon — May 17th 2008 @ 11:53 amI was a fourteen year associate. I always had excellent evaluations. My attendance was flawless. I was well liked and had many friends. My customer service was impeckable. So what happened to me? Well I got old. I am 49 years old. I have had some health problems. But I did not let it affect my work performance while I was on the clock. But the managers needed to cut hours. I was slowly wrote up for one silly thing after the other. One write up was something I did by accident. But then my assistant did the exact same thing on purpose and they did nothing to her. My next write up was because they said I wasn’t keeping the rotating book. When I was first gave the book to keep I put it in a safe place. But it came up missing. I did forget about it, so that one was my fault. The third was for yelling at a fellow associate. I denied it but her bestfriend backed her up. I do not yell at people. I have had open heart surgery and it is painful to raise my voice. But the manager that wrote me up said it had to be true. Then I got wrote up the last time because they said I was not keeping the rotation log correctly. I was rotating stock and keeping it wrote down. They said they could not see any proof to this. I challenged them to come with me and I would show them. But they refused. So out the door I went. Fire! I lost my medical benefits and I have had to use my profit sharing money to live on. My unemployment is barely half what my take home pay was. They also tried to fight my unemployment. It has been almost six months since I left there. I have reapplied with them. And even though they told the unemployment office they would rehire me I have yet to hear from them. Since I have left other long time associates have been demoted. After twenty or more years I find it hard to believe that these associates suddenly went bad.
Comment by Frances — Jul 15th 2008 @ 3:47 pm