Legal Opinion
Dickens v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
District Court, S.D. Mississippi
Decided January 10, 1994No. 2:93-cv-00110PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
WINGATE, District Judge.
Before the court is the defendant’s motion for summary judgment filed pursuant to Rule 56(b), 1 Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Plaintiff opposes the motion. By its motion, defendant Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., seeks a judgment absolving it of any liability to plaintiff Sarah Dickens, who, while shopping on defendant’s premises, allegedly slipped on a clothes hanger, fell and severely injured herself. Defendant asserts that under the applicable law and the undisputed facts plaintiffs claims are vulnerable to a grant of summary judgment in…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Lyle v. MladinichMississippi Supreme Court · 1991
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