K-Mart Corporation v. Washington

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the act of placing a customer in handcuffs and walking him throughout the store constituted defamation per se
• observing that damages awards within a jury’s province are generally infirm only if influenced by passion or prejudice
• observing that damages awards within a jury's province are generally infirm only if influenced by passion or prejudice
• finding “self-imposed guidelines and 18 internal policies” relevant to deciding breach
• “The imputation of shoplifting, by words or by pantomime, if communicated to a third party, is unquestionably slander per se.”
• \The reasonableness of [a defendant's] actions [is] a factual determination that the jurors could make based upon all the evidence presented at trial.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).