Mealey's (January 13, 2023, 1:21 PM EST) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A shopper who brought putative class claims against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. after he alleged that he was improperly detained for suspected shoplifting failed to sufficiently allege false imprisonment and failed to show that a Virginia law designed to protect merchants from civil liability within certain limits created any private right of action for breaching those limits, a Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Jan. 12 in an unpublished opinion....