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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Gallagher grants summary judgment in favor of Walmart in this lawsuit brought by two shoppers involved in a confrontation with the store’s employee. The shoppers allege a host of claims claims for battery, assault, defamation, racial discrimination, false arrest and imprisonment, malicious prosecution, intentional Infliction of emotional distress, and multiple negligence theories after an employee accused them of shoplifting. The evidence shows the employee used self-defense, had a legal reason to detain, did not pose an unreasonable risk of harm and the police did their own investigation when one of the shoppers physically attacked the employee first. A jury reasonably could not find emotional distress was inflicted, or that this was a racial incident.