{"id":687710,"date":"2026-01-27T00:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=687710"},"modified":"2026-01-27T00:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:31:10","slug":"maryland-jury-rules-walmart-liable-for-selling-shotgun-used-in-employee-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=687710","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Jury Rules Walmart Liable For Selling Shotgun Used In Employee Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a notable torts verdict in Maryland where\u00a0<strong>a jury handed down a multi-million dollar verdict against Walmart for selling a shotgun to an employee who used it to commit suicide<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict raises difficult questions over Walmart\u2019s responsibility for the suicide of Jacob Mace, who lied to store employees, under common law torts.<\/p>\n<p>The jury awarded approximately $2.5 million in economic damages and $8 million in non-economic damages. Those damages may be reduced due to state caps on non-economic damages.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>I find the verdict concerning on a number of levels.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/maryland-jury-rules-walmart-liable-selling-shotgun-used-employee-suicide\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/maryland-jury-rules-walmart-liable-selling-shotgun-used-employee-suicide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a notable torts verdict in Maryland where\u00a0a jury handed down a multi-million dollar verdict against Walmart for selling a shotgun to an employee who used it to commit suicide. The verdict raises difficult questions over Walmart\u2019s responsibility for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=687710\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=687710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687711,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687710\/revisions\/687711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}