An Alabama woman was awarded $2.1 million in damages after filing a lawsuit against Walmart for wrongfully accusing her of shoplifting, in a 2016 incident. A Mobile County jury ruled in favor of Lesleigh Nurse on Nov. 30. Under the lawsuit, Nurse stated that Walmart staff stopped her from leaving a Walmart store with groceries she had paid for, according to AL.com. Nurse said she used the self-checkout, but the scanning device froze and she needed Walmart staff to assist her. Workers did not accept her explanation and arrested her for shoplifting. The case was dismissed a year later after a Walmart employee and defendant in her suit failed to respond to a subpoena, according to news reports. The following month, however, Nurse said she received letters from a Florida law firm threatening to file a civil suit against her if she did not pay them $200, which exceeded the …