MARSHALL-While shopping at a Dillard's store in Tyler in May 2008, Donna Rutledge claims she slipped in an accumulation of liquid on the floor and fell to the ground. Rutledge states she was seriously injury due to the slip and fall.
Torch Award winners Philpott Motors General Manager Bob Thewman, left, and Owner Relations Manager Jennifer Parker, right, join guest speaker Michael Reagan, center, at the May 5 banquet.
Philpott Motors Ltd. in Nederland and Tony Houseman Companies of Orange are the winners of the 2009 Torch Awards for Marketplace Trust presented May 5th by the Better Business Bureau of Southeast Texas.
An Orange County woman has filed suit against a local shopping mall, its managers, a cleaning service and an unknown cleaning service employee after she slipped on a wet floor while walking from store to store.
Milton "Mickey" Shuffield Milton "Mickey" Gunn Shuffield has announced he will seek another term as judge of the Jefferson County 136th District Court.
On Nov. 6, a Jefferson County jury found that Dillard's at Parkdale Mall had not been engaging in racial profiling. Three teens brought the department store to trial on claims that a security guard had falsely accused them of shoplifting and was acting in accordance with Dillard's practice of targeting black customers.
Jefferson County jurors found no evidence that Dillard's department store engaged in racial profiling, and instead found the plaintiffs liable for causing the altercation with a store security guard who they claimed had singled them out because they were black.
Washington & Ernster A defense lawyer for Dillard's told jurors that if they believed the plaintiffs' story about being assaulted at the department store by a security officer, then he had some swampland in Florida they might be interested in.
For more than a decade, Dillard's department stores have made national headlines after the apparel distributor was accused of racially discriminating against African American customers. Shortly after the news spread, lawsuits started popping up across the country.
Rather than battle it out in court, Dillard's Department Stores, Inc. settled with Evelyn Campbell. The personal injury trial of Cambell vs. Dillard's was set to begin May 30 in Judge Donald Floyd's 172nd District Court.