Miranda v. Home Depot, Inc.

Anita Miranda was shopping at the building materials store, Home Depot, when she saw a planter she was interested in purchasing. The planter was on a bottom display shelf. A ladder in front of the shelf blocked access to the planter. According to Miranda, when she was unsuccessful in finding an employee to get the planter for her, she projected her head and shoulders and upper torso through the ladder in order to retrieve the planter for herself. Then, by standing erect or withdrawing on other than the same plane by which she had injected her body through the ladder, she hit her right eye on…