A jury must decide whether a man was defamed when a Wal-Mart employee announced she was stopping the sale of a firearm to the man in front of other shoppers, a Lawrence County court has ruled.
In Dodd v. Wal-Mart Stores East, Lawrence County Court of Common Pleas President Judge Dominick Motto overruled Wal-Mart’s preliminary objections to Franklin J. Dodd’s complaint, determining in his opinion that it was uncertain whether Dodd was defamed and that only a jury would be able to determine if he was.
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