Negligence – Premises Liability – Wholesale Club – Shooting
By Deborah Elkins
Published: October 3, 2008
A woman can sue the Wholesale Club where she worked – but not the store manager – for the store’s failure to adequately warn or provide security from her husband who shot her on store property, a Norfolk Circuit Court holds.
Phillips v. BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc. (Norfolk Cir.Ct.) (VLW 008-8-212) (5 pp.)
Smithfield Foods, union settle their conflict
By News in Brief
Published: October 3, 2008
Smithfield Foods dropped a racketeering and extortion lawsuit against a union, which in turn agreed last week to end its bitter economic and publicity campaign against the nation’s largest pork producer.
As part of the settlement, both sides agreed to rules for a United Food and Commercial Workers organizing election at the world’s largest hog slaughterhouse [...]
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