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From 1990 to 1991, Allen was a law clerk for David B. Sentelle, a judge on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, famous for his role in the Whitewater investigation. Allen met and became a protege of Clarence Thomas , who was a judge on that court at the time Allen was clerking there.
Shopkeeper's privilege is a law recognized in the United States under which a shopkeeper is allowed to detain a suspected shoplifter on store property for a reasonable period of time, so long as the shopkeeper has cause to believe that the person detained in fact committed, or attempted to commit, theft of store property.
Paul v. Davis, 424 U.S. 693 (1976), is a United States Supreme Court case in which a sharply divided Court held that the plaintiff, whom the local police chief had named an "active shoplifter," suffered no deprivation of liberty resulting from injury to his reputation. [1]
Oct. 4—The alleged theft of about $28.83 in goods from a Whitefish grocery store late last month landed a 31-year-old in Flathead County District Court on multiple charges. Nolan Wayne Hamman ...
Charges include shoplifting, drug possession and at least two people have been accused of swindling a woman out of $800 at a Walmart. 12 people arrested for an alleged organized shoplifting scheme ...
Three other misdemeanor shoplifting charges — for a frozen pizza, some toothbrushes and a $2.74 package of oyster crackers — were dismissed by the court. Airey will now face a sentencing ...
Shoplifting (also known as shop theft, retail theft, or retail fraud) is the theft of goods from a retail establishment during business hours. The terms shoplifting and shoplifter are not usually defined in law, and generally fall under larceny .
Larceny is a crime involving the unlawful taking or theft of the personal property of another person or business. It was an offence under the common law of England and became an offence in jurisdictions which incorporated the common law of England into their own law (also statutory law), where in many cases it remains in force.