Mom Can't Sue Walmart Over Daughter's Inhalant-Abuse Death
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has refused to allow a mother to sue Walmart after her daughter purchased a large quantity of aerosol dust remover from one location over the course of 27 hours and was later found dead in the parking lot of that store from inhalant abuse.
October 18, 2018 at 03:01 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Texas Lawyer
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has refused to allow a mother to sue Walmart after her daughter purchased a large quantity of aerosol dust remover from one location over the course of 27 hours and was later found dead in the parking lot of that store from inhalant abuse.
According to Allen v. Wal-Mart, Karalee Alaine Williams entered a Baytown Walmart store on nine different occasions and purchased at least 60 cans of dust remover over the course of two days in 2016.
During her second visit, Williams soiled herself but proceeded to buy more cans of dust remover, and told the checkout employee that she had had a seizure in the parking lot. On her third visit the following morning, Williams entered the store naked from the waist down. Walmart employees noticed Williams' condition, and gave her a towel and a sundress, and she later purchased more cans of dust remover, the court said.
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