LEGAL NEWSLINE

ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - A grandfather who was captured on videotape walking away from his 4-year-old granddaughter at a busy pool party before she drowned is primarily responsible for the girl’s death, a Georgia appeals court ruled, rejecting an attempt by the child’s mother to collect damages from the party hosts and the company that built the pool.

LANSING, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - A woman who attempted to leave a Walmart store without paying for items including a dozen packages of ramen noodles had no basis to sue the store for malicious prosecution, a Michigan appeals court ruled.

PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) - The parents of a man who was killed in the parking lot of a strip club can’t sue the club or the off-duty security guard who shot him, an Arizona appeals court ruled, finding the dead man was a trespasser after having been told to leave the property earlier in the evening.