Legal Opinion
Dent v. May Department Stores Co.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided June 8, 1982No. 81-1086PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Per curiam
Appellant appeals from an order of the trial court which granted appellee’s motion for summary judgment in her action for false arrest and imprisonment. We affirm.
Uncontradicted evidence before the trial court established that on the afternoon of March 8, 1980 appellant, a customer in ap-pellee’s department store, The Hecht Company, purchased a skirt. The cashier apparently failed to remove a magnetized sensor-matic device designed to apprehend shoplifters and, consequently, appellant activated a buzzer near a store exit as she attempted to leave.
A security guard assigned to monitor the…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Waldon v. CovingtonDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1980
- Marshall v. District of ColumbiaDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1978
- Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. DeversMississippi Supreme Court · 1981
- Shaw v. May Department Stores Co.District of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1970
- Clarke v. District of ColumbiaDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1973
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3Cited by29 opinions
- Kenley v. District of ColumbiaDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2015
- Enders v. District of ColumbiaDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 2010
- District of Columbia v. MurphyDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1993
- Gabrou v. May Department Stores Co.District of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1983
- Sherrod v. McHughCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2018
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