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Litigation

Jan. 29, 2016

Trial opens in case against Sears over peeping employee

In seeking to show Sears Holding Corp. is liable for a maintenance worker who drilled peepholes and placed video cameras into women's changing rooms at a Los Angeles store, plaintiff lawyer Michael Louis Kelly told jurors that maintenance employee Alejandro Gamiz spent years cultivating an elaborate spy system amid oblivious supervisors.

By Matthew Blake
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - In seeking to show Sears Holding Corp. is liable for a maintenance worker who drilled peepholes and placed video cameras into women's changing rooms at one of its stores, plaintiff lawyer Michael Louis Kelly told jurors that employee Alejandro Gamiz spent years cultivating an elaborate spy system amid oblivious supervisors.

Sears attorney David McDowell co...

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