Re: "Mom sues Wal-Mart over daughter's suicide"
Sorry to bring this back to the original question...
fishin' wrote:Is there any real legal basis for this suit or is this just a distraught mother lashing out in pain over her daughter's death?
I have no idea. I can't find the complaint on-line, so I don't know what the mother's legal theory might be, and I won't speculate on the merits of a lawsuit when the only details I have are provided by a news service (which, in my experience, are not entirely reliable when it comes to legal matters).
In general, a plaintiff in a case like this must establish some sort of duty owed by the defendant (Wal-Mart) to the plaintiff (the mother, as representative of her deceased daughter). I'm not sure what that duty could be, but it's possible that Wal-Mart affirmatively did something that established a duty on its part. I can think of any number of hypotheticals in which Wal-Mart could be held liable for the young woman's suicide; without more facts, however, any conclusions would be merely idle speculation.
Roger: thanks for the kind words regarding my participation in the discussion with
Thomas. I'm just glad when anyone
reads my posts; if someone learns something, well, that's just gravy.