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 The list appears to be a bit out of date, and it seems far too short to be comprehensive, but it’s still interesting to look at.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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Hey! Don’t sue my company!!
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 amMY 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…
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 pmI’ve been working at walmart for nearly three years. i’ve been working in the tire and lube express until i became pregnant. then i was forced to work on the sales floor and take a pay cut. but i was promised to to have my job back when i had the baby. i only took four weeks off and was back to work, but they hired two people in the garage when i was on leave and told me i had to wait until someone got fired or quit. one of my friends in the garage told the asst. manger he would transfer on the sales floor so that i could get my job back. and the asst. manger told him he couldn;t transfer. so three months later a employ in the garage quits. i ask the manger when i can have my job back, then he tells me “you have a job” when i remind him of the promis to get my job back in the garage when i got off leave, then the second one about when somone quits he tells me, “it’s not in walmarts budject to replace the position”
tell me if i’m wrong, but isn’t that wrong? not to mention i’m a single mother and that is my only income, and i can’t even get my pre-pregnant pay back.
Comment by christine — Nov 3rd 2008 @ 9:03 pmhelp I need a lawyer.I read Frances story.I to have the same things going on to me 4yrs no problems,bam I start making 11days an hour they start writting me up,today they sent me home with a d-day to think on how I can improve my self and my department.heck i aready work as 4 persons.what more do the want my blood or frist born.help me I ‘m a single mother and need to work. char norton
Comment by charlene norton — Nov 10th 2008 @ 11:20 amI got injury at wal-mart by another co-worker and co-worker was a supervisior or lead person in the backroom of ics or ict-inventory control team. I was injury in my right eye and did not pay me any money or settlement check. My eye was in pain and swollen. He did not get fired or got demote to lower worker or transfer out the receiveing room. I need help with this case. And my eye is still in pain and injury.
Comment by Lemark davis — Nov 18th 2008 @ 2:23 amBEGINNING TO DEVELOPE A CLASS ACTION AGAINST VIVA 2 TIRES AND THE CLUELESS TECHS WHO PUT INCORRECT TIRES ON CARS BUYERS BEWARE. IWONDER HOW MANY ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES HAVE OCCURED BECAUSE THE AUTOMOBLE DEPT HAVE INSTALLED NCORRECT TIRES ASK ANY PROFESSIONAL TIRE STORE AND THEY SHUDDER. NOT EVEN TRYING TO MAKE SELL THEY SAY YOUR LUCKY TO BE HERE.
Comment by MELANIE — Nov 23rd 2008 @ 12:22 amI live in Lubbock Texas, and on Christmas Eve my children were kicked out of Wal-Mart alone, scared and cold. Here is how this happened…….
Comment by Brandi — Dec 26th 2008 @ 10:06 pmI have four children, all boys; three of them received Wal-Mart gift cards from their Uncle for Christmas. The boys are 12, 9, and 8, and my 9-year-old has special needs. Well, like most children their age the gift cards were burning a hole in their pockets, so their uncle agreed to take them shopping, without the realization that Wal-Mart would be closing at 6 o’clock for the holidays. They walked through the door at 5:55 and were rudely told “Get what you need and get out; the doors are closing in 5 minutes.” So naturally my boys took off running and got separated from their uncle. Luckily the three of them stayed together. At 6 o’clock the boys were directed by a store employee to get out of the store, even though they were alone. The boys were not sure how to respond so they went outside as they were directed. There were two employees outside guarding the doors to make sure no one else got in and the boys were standing at the doors watching and looking for their uncle, because they had nothing else to do. At this point the sun has gone down so it is dark and cold outside and my boys are running from one door to the other, probably in the parking lot, which are about 100 yards apart searching for their uncle. The 9-year-old who has special needs is crying and scared while the other two are searching. At one point they catch site of their uncle and tell the man at the door as much, and ask if they can go in and get him, now keep in mind that it gets pretty cold after dark and all 3 boys are in shorts and no jacket, because we were unaware that they would be forced to stand outside for 15-20 minutes so that the Wal-mart employees could get home. They are told by the guards that they can not go back in and will just have to wait until he comes out. In the mean time the boy’s uncle is frantically searching the store for these 3 boys and is panicking. At one point he even has the boys paged, unaware that they have been tossed out in the cold. No one ever goes in to page for the Uncle or even bothers going in after they are told that the boys saw their Uncle. This experience was very frightening for everyone involved especially the boys. When I heard about it I went through a serious of emotions, at first I was just flat out pissed I thought about calling the police and the news station, but thought I should speak to an attorney first, I desperately tried to contact Wal-Mart but they were closed, I even tried to call their big offices, and nothing. I was horrified and shocked that a store that supposedly supports the Code Adam by locking all doors when a child gets lost would actually throw 3 children out by themselves. As a parent the things that ran through my mind are what if they had been struck by a car or abducted all because some stupid minimum wage worker is ready to get home. My kids do not look like thugs and are not trouble makers, so I do not understand why they were not simply brought to the front of the store and had their Uncle paged, why were they tossed outside? I am not sure what to do, but feel like something needs to be done to ensure that this does not happen again.
Brandi,
It is very scary and very sad to hear what has happened with your kids. But what is your role in this? I can not understand how come you sent 4 kids (one with special need) with one person? What were you doing?
Comment by RV — Dec 26th 2008 @ 11:39 pmThey are boys with lots of energy. Come on they did not even have jackets on?
I am sorry to say that you should get angry with yourself first before being pissed at other. Sorry. I completely understand what you have gone through.
There were only three boys with my brother and they have gone with him numerous times in the past. I take all four of them by myself on a daily basis, children get seperated, it happens, that is not my concern, my concern is why they were thrown out of a store, any store, by themselves. As far as them not wearing jackets, well when they left our house it was warm outside and there was no need for them to have jackets on. It only started to get cold after dark.
Comment by Brandi — Dec 27th 2008 @ 11:51 amObviously RV did not fully read your blog. The boys were with an adult they just got separated by the rush. I am shocked that the associate let three boys stay outside without adult supervision. They should have listened to your boys and page the worried Uncle. They obviously didn’t have a heart and were shy a few brains in that store. They should have been told when they walked in the door (politely) that the store was closing in five minutes and that the boys should wait until after Christmas and take advantage of the sales and get more for their money.
Comment by Peggy — Dec 29th 2008 @ 9:21 amI WORKED AT WAL-MART FOR 5 MONTHS(WHITEHALL,OH). I’VE BEEN SEXUALLY HARASSED,EMPLOYEES COMMENTING ON MY BUTT,MY FIQURE,THINGS THEY WANT TO DO TO ME IN THE BATHROOM.I EVEN SAID ILL SUE FOR SEXUAL HARRASSMENT IN FRONT OF A CSS,HE JUST SMILED AND SAID YEAH SHE COULD.PLUS MY LAST DAY OF WORK WAS AFTER THANKSGIVING.I STILL NEVER RECEIVED MY LAST CHECK I’VE CALLED PAYROLL THEY SAID IM OWED MY LAST CHECK.I’VE CALLED MARKETING,AND CORPORATE,PAYROLL,WAL-MART.COM,I’VE EVEN TALKED TO THE HEAD MARKETING MANAGER AND STILL NO CHECK.I’M BEHIND IN BILLS,MY BANK ACCOUNT IS OVERDRAFTED BECAUSE OF THE FUNDS I DIDN’T RECEIVE,NOW I OWE MORE THAN $400 IN BILLS BECAUSE THEY WON’T GIVE ME MY CHECK.
Comment by (ANDY) — Jan 21st 2009 @ 2:21 pmhello,
my husband and i were in a wal-mart one sunday night.
Comment by lisa — Mar 2nd 2009 @ 5:20 pmas we were leaving i stepped on a crack in the floor. the store was prettey much empty. there was no one in front of us. the floor is all one color. we were about 20 feet from the door when i fell.we didn’t know at first what caused it .my husband got me to a bench and went to see thats when he found the crack about an inch wide and a quater to a half inch deep. anyway i twisted my knee and torn the menisus. i will need surgery ..what was so bad was how wal-mart has treated us . it took 20 to 30 mins. before a manger to even get up front. and another 15 to 20 mins. to get ice for my knee when i opened my eyes the only person that was there was my husband …. no one tried to help…. are all wal-marts like this????
thanks Lisa
Yea most walmarts are like this.But, what do you expect from employee’s who barely scrape by on their wages?You get what you pay for and walmart pays the worst.
Comment by upsalla_skala — Apr 21st 2009 @ 3:38 pmbriget what wal mart in witch state cause this sound s like the payson utah walmart to me.Char
Comment by char — May 25th 2009 @ 12:38 ammy daughter still thinks i should sue for slader and bing fired from walmart be i need a lawyer who will take the case probono until something happens if it does char norton payson utah
Comment by char — May 25th 2009 @ 12:44 amthis is how they fired me with lies and the told lies to the unemloyment that got invsetgated and i was found wrongfully fired. got my unemloyent benifits.Char
Comment by char — May 29th 2009 @ 12:36 pmFrances all the same happened to me becausee i made to much and i’m not a kiss ass .
Comment by char — May 29th 2009 @ 12:40 pmI was terminated from walmart after 5 years of service and it was justified stating workplace violence this and other slanderous remarks were perpetuated against me by the jim jackson click at store 3474 in bradenton fl. i have never nor do i entend to strike or even argue with anyone i work withthese remarks are slanderous and seformative to my character and i seek an attorney who has the intestinal fortutide to go against walmart and get justice for me and my family the trusly important thing is my name is cleared there was never a formal investigation and the assistant manager who started these vicious lies also attempted to fire a friend of mine the next night however it was overturned the only diference is my friend is white
Comment by robert — Jun 25th 2009 @ 3:10 am