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Ep. 26: The Hands-On Line · Shopkeeper's Privilege and False Imprisonment


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A forty-dollar stop. A hand on an arm. A back room, a closed door, twenty minutes waiting on a manager and a six-figure false imprisonment claim. In the season's most operationally fixable episode, Jim Cords and Don Carr break down shopkeeper's privilege and the three walls that contain it: reasonable belief, reasonable time, reasonable manner. Step outside any one and the privilege vanishes and false imprisonment doesn't require handcuffs, just a grip that won't let go. Why the disproportion between a petty loss and a person's liberty argues a plaintiff's case for them, why so many retailers have moved to non-confrontation policies, and how to draw the hands-on line before the moment arrives. 


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