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Benchmarks: Wal-Mart dodges liability for sale of fatal bullet 

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    • September 11, 2012

Wal-Mart isn’t liable for a homicide stemming from an alleged “straw purchase” of ammunition by an underage customer, the Mississippi Supreme Court has decided.
“We find that [the customer’s] criminal act was not within the realm or circle of reasonable foreseeability at the time that the ammunition was purchased,” the » […]

Original post by http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/09/11/benchmarks-wal-mart-dodges-liability-for-sale-of-fatal-bullet/

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