The Arkansas state attorney general is suing Family Dollar over its “reckless” and “intentional” actions of selling products to customers despite a rodent infestation and unsanitary conditions at its West Memphis distribution center.
Filed in Pulaski County Circuit Court on Thursday, the lawsuit (pdf) seeks actual and punitive damages, disgorgement, restitution, civil penalties, and injunctive relief against Family Dollar to “protect the health, safety, and economic well-being of Arkansas consumers who purchased or used the potentially hazardous or contaminated products sold” at the store.
It comes just months after the company temporarily closed more than 400 stores after a Food and Drug Administration inspection found unsanitary conditions at the Arkansas facility, including decomposing carcasses of dead rodents.
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