Legal Opinion
Okwara v. Dillard Department Stores, Inc.
Court of Appeals of North Carolina
Decided February 15, 2000No. COA99-309PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARTIN, Judge.
Plaintiff Chiege Kalu Okwara filed suit against Officer Walter B. Rorie, Dillard Department Stores (“Dillard”) and the Town of Pineville (“Town”) on 2 December 1994, alleging negligent hiring, defamation, slander per se, race discrimination, violations of 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983, infliction of emotional distress, false imprisonment, battery, and assault. These allegations stemmed from a 10 December 1993 incident at a Dillard Department Store in Pineville, North Carolina, in which defendant Rorie, an off-duty Pineville police officer working as a security guard for Dillard,…
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