Adcox v. Safeway Stores, Inc.

ORDER

ROBERT W. PORTER, District Judge.

Came on before the Court the motion of the defendant in the above styled and numbered cause for summary judgment, and the court having considered said motion and determining that it should be construed as a motion for partial summary judgment, makes its ruling as set out below.

This cause of action arises out of an incident wherein the plaintiff was detained in a Safeway store allegedly for shoplifting. Plaintiff is seeking actual and exemplary damages for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. Defendant asserts that probable cause for the detention…