Dauzat v. Dolgencorp, LLC

GENOVESE, Judge.

| ¶ Defendants/Appellants, DG Louisiana, LLC,1 doing business as Dollar General (hereafter Dollar General), and Amanda Poarch, suspensively appeal an adverse judgment following a bench trial on Plaintiffs’ claims of defamation and false imprisonment. The trial court awarded $20,000 in general damages to each Plaintiff. For the following reasons, we affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

On April 14, 2014, Plaintiffs, Victoria Dauzat and Phyllis Jeansonne,2 claimed to have been wrongly accused of shoplifting at a Dollar General store located in Marks-ville, Louisiana. On…