HUYNH v. WALMART INC.

No. 21-20277.

30 F.4th 448 (2022)

Thalia HUYNH; Dalena Bustos, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. WALMART INC.; Wal-Mart Stores Texas, L.L.C., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED April 4, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mo Taherzadeh , Husein Hadimohammadabad , Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Neal Alexander Hoffman , Bush & Ramirez, P.L.L.C., Houston, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before Dennis, Southwick, and Wilson, Circuit Judges.


In certain circumstances under Texas law, shopkeepers can detain suspected shoplifters. In 2017, Walmart employees stopped Thalia Huynh and her daughter, Dalena Bustos, on just such a suspicion. After the situation escalated (to put it gently), the two sued Walmart in state court, alleging false imprisonment among...

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