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This digital document is an article from Security Management, published by American Society for Industrial Security on January 1, 2003. The length of the article is 670 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation Details
Title: False imprisonment. (U.S. Judicial Decisions).(Wal-Mart v. Rodriguez )
Author: Teresa Anderson
Publication: Security Management (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2003
Publisher: American Society for Industrial Security
Volume: 47 Issue: 1 Page: 98(1)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that a store owner cannot be held liable for false imprisonment if it did not knowingly provide false information to the district attorney and did not direct that a certain person be arrested. In the early 1980s, Martin Rodriguez was employed by R&C Enterprises, a small company owned by Rex Long. While employed by Long, Rodriguez purchased company supplies at a local Wal-Mart using a company check. Because Rodriguez was the first person to use the account at the Wal-Mart, his driver's license number was entered into the computer as the owner of the check. From that point on, any company checks presented at Wal-Mart would be printed with Rodriguez's...
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