Williams v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Opinion of the Court by

Justice ROACH.

I. INTRODUCTION

Linda Williams (‘Williams”) brought suit against Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Wal-Mart”) and two individual Wal-Mart management employees. Williams alleged that she had been subjected to unlawful age discrimination, disability discrimination, and retaliation in violation of KRS Chapter 344. The case proceeded to trial and the sole claim presented to the jury was whether Williams had been subjected to age discrimination by Wal-Mart. The jury determined that Williams had been the victim of unlawful age discrimination and awarded her damages of…