On a night in May 2003, Christopher Dean, an employee of a Whataburger restaurant in northwest Houston was murdered during a robbery attempt. On that night, Gregory Love was scheduled as a manager of the restaurant. He arrived early for the shift allowing another manager, Arthur Murray to leave early. Mr. Dean was also working at the restaurant. He was mentally impaired and had been working for Whataburger (Defendant) for last 14 years. Soon after Mr. Love started his shift, he called Mr. Murray and informed he also needed to leave work and asked Murray if he could leave Dean as in charge. Despite, Mr Murray’s disagreement Love left the restaurant and delegated his managerial power to Dean.
At around 4 a.m. three men tried to rob the restaurant. One climbed through
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Dean filed a suit against Whataburger, Inc alleged the company’s negligence was the proximate cause of the murder of Mr. Dean. The defendant denied the claimant’s allegation mentioning there was a lack of evidence to prove it as a negligent act. The trial court granted summary court for Whataburger, holding that shooting death of a Dean was not foreseeable event and Barton appealed.
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Barton appealed with two issues. Whataburger Inc, was not able to conduct a proper hiring process that led the aggravated robbery in the restaurant. Barton also contends that the restaurant was not able to provide a safe working environment accusing the company did not had reasonable security measures to prevent the violent crime.
Barton produced the evidence of the Gregory Love’s past criminal history. In 1993, Love was convicted with felony offense for dealing cocaine in the state of Indiana. He was also convicted for another felony offense for nonpayment of child support in Texas in 2002. Before he was hired for the managerial position, his background check was done only for criminal convictions in Harris County. This resulted Whataburger not to locate his criminal
...e terms and conditions the job entailed. I believe that Wal-Mart did accommodate Pam Huber’s disability needs by suggesting to her a different position to work in due to her downfall. If the company caused for her accident then they should accommodate for her disability and keep Pam Huber in her position but due to the fact that the accident happened on her own terms I do not think the company should be reliable for her disability and therefore Pam Huber should either accept and make the most out of her situation or leave the company. Based on all these factors I am defiantly in agreement with Wal-Mart and the district courts decision on ruling summery judgment in favor of Pam Huber.
In the case of Michael T. Vandall, M.D., Plaintiff and Appellant v. Trinity Hospitals, a corporation, and Margaret C. Nordell, M.D., the issue is about retaliatory discharge. It deals with problems with Trinity Hospital in North Dakota, Dr. Margaret Nordell and Dr. Michael Vandall, both physicians working in the OB-GYN department.
Nurse finders later assigned Drummond to work at a Kaiser facility as a medical assistant. The Plaintiff Sara Montegue was a medical assistant at Kaiser. Drummond and Montague had a disagreement, Montague didn’t think it was much of a big argument to report it. Both Drummond and Montague had a discussion about misplaced lab slips where Drummond raised her voice. A few weeks after the discussion, Montague left her water bottle at work. Montague later drank from her water bottle and her tongue and throat started to burn and she vomited. Drummond admitted that she had poured carbolic acid found in a Kaiser examination room into Montague’s water
Registered Nurse Pausits, a defendant out of the many involved with Parson’s case, has failed to provide Randy Parson with the correct prescription drug during his stay at Standish. The Plaintiff wanted to prove that she unsuccessfully administered medication to Randy Parsons and that a reasonable jury can conclude the fact Pausits was aware of the risks to Parsons. The court has reversed the grant of summary judgment to Nurse Pausits, because this case would rise to the level of deliberate indifference. Plaintiff Parsons revealed that Pausits perceived facts to infer substantial risk to Randy Parsons and drew the inference. She had to state she was aware, which she did, of a substantial risk. Evidence has shown that Nurse Pausits could have gotten Dilantian for Randy Parson if she viewed the situation as an emergency. Pausit’s case has discovered confirmation that she administered 100mg of Dilantin to Randy Parsons August 27, at 6:00 p.m. However, in Randy’s toxicology report, no Dilantin was shown in his body for 3 days before his death, which was August 28. Wellbutrin was shown in Randy’s body instead of Dilantin, which is a form of an anti-depressant that helps people suffering from seizures and can prevent causing a seizure. Displayed that Pausits signed Randy’s Medication Administration Record (MAR), when the prison log showed that Registered Nurse Alexander performed the medication August 27, raises a red flag as to who performed the medication and what prescription was given. The Plaintiff provided enough evidence towards Pausits in that she has unsuccessfully administered the medication to Randy and that Pausits was aware of a substantial risk to Randy Parsons. Because of this, a jury can place more significance on the t...
Facts of case: On January 7, 1991 nineteen years old Jennifer Soto was just promoted to manager for Taco Bell restaurant, Soto was the closing manager that night. She allowed former employee Applicant to use the store phone because he said his car was broke down, the restaurant was closed. Applicant repeatedly hit Soto with the gun until it broke. Applicant wanted Soto to give him the combination to the store safe, but she didn’t know it. Applicant then shot Soto point bank into the back of her head along with stabbing her numerous times. Finally he sliced her neck severing her jugular vein, which along with the gunshot wound
State, which argues that “if a plaintiff 's injury is caused by the intervening act of a third-party, the defendant 's actions cannot be viewed as the proximate cause of that injury.” In this case the Montana State Hospital found Victor Buddell was a danger to himself and others but was released anyways. A few months later Buddell murdered David R. King, the son of the plaintiffs. The court contended that “the Kings could not establish proximate cause against the State, as the Kings’ injury was clearly caused by the act of Buddell.” Likewise, Allcar’s injuries are clearly caused by Dakota’s brother’s decision to shoot the rifle, not HAW’s negligence is selling the weapon to another
In the Simpson case, the officers did not do a very good job at securing
The defendant within the United States v. Jared Lee Lougher case was charged in federal court with the attempted assignation and attempted murder of federal employees, which came as a result of his shooting spree at the Safeway Supermarket, located in Tucson, Arizona. The shooting occurred on January 8th of 2011 and resulted in the deaths of six individuals and the injury of 13 individuals; the alleged target of the attack was said to be “[Representative] Gabrielle Giffords,” whom was among the injured (Audi, 2011). In addition, among the injured was “Federal Judge John Roll and Giffords aide Gabriel Zimmerman” (Audi, 2011). Furthermore, due to Judge John Roll being a federal judge, Loughner...
“Beyond a Reasonable Doubt” clearly demonstrated the role of a prosecutor in the courtroom. Albeit in a negative manner, Hunter effectively bridged the functions of the police to the criminal justice process during the trial of Metcalfe (Neubauer & Fradella, 2014, p. 150). The murder trial of Metcalfe provided a frightening view of prosecutorial misconduct and unethical behavior of a prosecutor. Hunter betrayed the public he served by conspiring with Lieutenant Merchant to fabricate DNA evidence to ensure victory in the courtroom.
Steve Harmon is guilty of felony murder because he participated and had knowledge about a crime that ended up in the death of an innocent citizen. The judge stated the if you believe that Steve harmon took part in the crime than you must return a verdict of guilty. I believe that Steve went into the drugstore on that day for the purpose of being a lookout. Some of Steve’s journal entry’s lead to him feeling guilty or like a “monster”.
Teens being discriminated for being loud? Aren’t adults noisy themselves? Munchy’s restaurant should not ban students, when adults are also loud. Munchy’s is now creating a “quiet lunch” for adults that ban students for certain hours.
We are here to demonstrate that Mr. Killer Suspect is that man who shot and slaughtered Biggie Smalls in a drive by shooting on March 9, 1997 Biggie was coming back to his hotel after he had left a music industry party. We will demonstrate past a sensible uncertainty the Mr. Killer Suspect had the thought process and the way to execute this egregious wrongdoing. We will do this to some degree by calling various observers who saw Mr. Suspect at the scene, as well as heard him afterward guaranteeing to be the murder. At the finish of this trial, it is my trust that in light of a legitimate concern for equity you will find that the litigant is totally in charge of the murder of Biggie Smalls. Thank you.
Turner’s father, Dan Turner had wrote a letter to the judge asking him to go easy on his son. Dan said that a long sentence would be “a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 years of life”. This one phrase made many people furious and outraged. The father had also said that Turner is having a hard time eating his favorite food, steak, because he is so distraught from the trial. A Stanford professor was shocked that this father would compare not being able to eat steak to being sexually assaulted. Before the sentence was given, the twenty three year old victim wrote a twelve page letter describing in detail how the rape affected her life. She had felt that the jury of her peers did not give justice for the horrible assault she endured. She explained how she went to fraternity party near Stanford, drank a lot, then did not know what had happened to her once she regained consciousness in the hospital. In detail, the victim explained the humiliating and traumatizing experience of a forensic sexual assault
McDonald's Corporation is the largest fast-food operator in the World and was originally formed in 1955 after Ray Kroc pitched the idea of opening up several restaurants based on the original owned by Dick and Mac McDonald. McDonald's went public in 1965 and introduced its flagship product, the Big Mac, in 1968. Today, McDonald's operates more than 30,000 restaurants in over 100 countries and have one of the world's most widely known brand names. McDonald's sales hit $57 billion company-wide and over $25 billion in the United States in 2006 (S&P).
As an add-on component to its IT Operations-as-a-Service program for Whataburger Restaurants, Sigma offers the SmartHands Dispatch service for the onsite support at Whataburger stores. Dispatch services may be delivered by Sigma employees or an approved 3rd party managed by Sigma. The scheduling and deployment of a technician will occur after the Sigma ITOaaS Operations team has provided remote support and troubleshooting as part of the MANAGED Service Level support agreement.