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MALVO v. J.C. PENNEY COMPANY, INC.

No. 1630.

512 P.2d 575 (1973)

Alton and Alice MALVO, on behalf of Paula Malvo, a minor, Appellants, v. J.C. PENNEY COMPANY, INC., Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

July 13, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Ashley Dickerson and Sylvia L. Short, Anchorage, for appellants.

Kenneth P. Jacobus, of Hughes, Thorsness, Lowe, Gantz & Clark, Anchorage, for appellee.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and CONNOR and BOOCHEVER, JJ.

OPINION

BOOCHEVER, Justice.

This case arises from a civil action for false imprisonment and slander. The precipitating incident was the detention and questioning of three black teenage girls by a security employee of O'Neill Investigations who suspected them of shoplifting at the J.C. Penney Company's Anchorage store on December 17, 1969. Appellant, Paula Malvo, was a member of that group.

It appears that Paula, three teenage friends, and the mother...

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