Nutting v. Roche Bros. Supermarkets, Inc.

For eight years “Tommy” Sakalaukas, a physically and. developmentally disabled adult living with his parents, worked as a grocery bagger at the defendant’s supermarket. Prior to his hiring, the plaintiff, Tommy’s mother, had told management of his history of petty pilferage at prior jobs and asked that she be alerted to any future problems with Tommy’s work. The defendant had agreed and, after each of several incidents of Tommy’s stealing small items, had so notified her. With the plaintiff’s intercession, Tommy had been reinstated from the resulting suspensions or, in one case, termination.…