Jordan Creek Town Center has settled claims that it harassed an elderly girl with a service canine and made her wait outdoors for greater than an hour within the chilly.
Marilyn Lindley sued the West Des Moines mall final 12 months over the February 2021 incident. According to her criticism, Lindley, then 71, used a walker and a service canine because of psychological and bodily well being situations. While on the mall, although, she alleged the mall’s safety director approached to ask why she wanted a service animal.
When she refused to debate her medical info, she was ordered to go away, in accordance with the criticism. She was pressured to attend outdoors with out correct winter clothes for her experience to return greater than an hour later, the lawsuit stated.
The case was set to go to trial subsequent month. But on Nov. 1, the events notified the court docket they’d reached a settlement, and on Nov. 21, the case was formally dismissed.
Court information don’t present the quantity of the settlement, and an lawyer for the mall didn’t return a message in search of remark. Lindley, who represented herself after she parted methods together with her earlier lawyer, couldn’t be reached for remark.
William Morris covers courts for the Des Moines Register. He could be contacted at [email protected]715-573-8166 or on Twitter at @DMRMorris.
