Harder v. Edwards

Does the plaintiffs chosen legal remedy — the tort of false imprisonment — provide her compensation for enduring a horrible experience? On October 2, 2008, Latoya Edwards’s wallet was stolen. Early on a June morning in 2009, in front of her family, she was arrested and taken to jail on a warrant accusing her of passing a fraudulent $281 check at a T.J. *527Maxx retail store. Edwards was the innocent victim of identity fraud; the true wrongdoer had used her stolen driver’s license to complete the check transaction. Edwards recovered damages on a false imprisonment claim against the store, its…