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- BUSINESS, Page 47Business NotesLITIGATIONHe Can Afford To Be Tardy
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- Sam Walton is still the richest man in America, but his
- fortune may be dented a bit because he missed a court deadline. A
- state judge in Fort Worth slapped his Wal-Mart Stores chain with
- an $11.6 million fine because Walton, 70, was 17 days late in
- delivering a deposition. The chairman's testimony was subpoenaed
- for a trial in which a customer demanded $6 million after
- slipping in a Wal-Mart in Sulphur Springs, Texas. The tardiness
- penalty dwarfed the $35,658.30 the jury awarded Andrew
- Carrizales, a Houston mechanic, for his injuries. The company
- will appeal Walton's fine.
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