Wal-Mart Moves to Quash Non-Party Subpoena in Employee's Suit Against Chemical Firms

HATTIESBURG, Miss. – Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is resisting a non-party subpoena by an industrial chemical company seeking a forensic inspection of a store's surveillance system or computers pursuant to a personal injury lawsuit by a Wal-Mart employee.

Wal-Mart says in a Jan. 13 motion to quash that it has complied in good faith with prior discovery requests but that the latest request was unnecessary and could lead to the disclosure of proprietary information.

The company filed its motion in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi,where employee Peggy Martin has filed a suit against Ecolab Inc. and …