Shane Perry's lawsuit against Walmart says his refusal to alter a memo about Walmart de Mexico led to lies alleging child abuse and dishonesty.
If you were wondering if there were any updates in the case involving the former in-house attorney for Walmart Inc. who sued the Bentonville retailer, so were we.
But a search for the case, Shane Perry v. Walmart Stores Inc. on the Administrative Office of the Courts’ CourtConnect website, reveals nothing.
The docket sheet for the suit doesn’t even pop up in the Circuit Court of Benton County, making it appear as if the case had never been filed.
But a clerk at the Benton County circuit clerk’s office told Whispers that the case had been sealed and no information was to be released, including the name of the judge handling the dispute.
Earlier this year, before the case was locked down, the public filings showed that attorneys for Walmart requested the case be sealed because of the “sensitive nature of the information contained” in Perry’s complaint.
In the complaint, Perry said that he knew in February 2017 that his 15-year career at Walmart was coming to an end when he refused to make changes to a memo he had written years earlier about a bribery investigation in Mexico.
Perry accused the company of manufacturing false charges against him — including child abuse — to justify firing him from his job, which paid $260,000 a year plus bonuses. Walmart disagreed, and said Perry’s firing had nothing to do with its seven-year investigation into potential violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
News outlets such as The Wall Street Journal and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported on the complaint.
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