Grand Forks family suing Wal-Mart

The family of a woman who died after falling in a fitting room at a Grand Forks Wal-Mart has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court.

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — The family of a woman who died after falling in a fitting room at a Grand Forks Wal-Mart has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court.

The complaint accuses Wal-Mart of negligence in the 2007 death of Cynthia Gaddie of Grand Forks. Her family says a store employee placed a portable clothing rack behind Gaddie while she was in the fitting room, and she tripped over it and fell.

The lawsuit seeks at least $50,000 in damages.

Lawyers for Wal-Mart say the fall was Gaddie's fault and the lawsuit should be dismissed.

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