Shayna Palmer v. Big Lots Stores, Inc., No. 15-1128 (4th Cir. 2015)

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UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 15-1128 SHAYNA PALMER, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. BIG LOTS STORES, INC., Defendant - Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Richmond. James R. Spencer, Senior District Judge. (3:14-cv-00276-JRS) Submitted: October 30, 2015 Decided: November 5, 2015 Before GREGORY and SHEDD, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge. Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Kevin W. Mottley, MOTTLEY LAW FIRM PLC, Richmond, Virginia; David B. Holt, JOSEPH SMITH, LTD., Hampton, Virginia, for Appellant. J. Matthew Haynes, Jr., Michael H. Gladstone, Robert W. Partin, MCCANDLISH HOLTON, P.C., Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. PER CURIAM: Shayna Palmer appeals the district court’s orders excluding her expert witness and granting summary judgment to Big Lots Stores, Inc. observations Assuming, of without Palmer’s expert deciding, that the witness should factual have been admitted, and having reviewed the parties’ briefs and the record on appeal, we find no reversible error in the grant of summary judgment because a jury would still have had to resort to “conjecture, guess, or random judgment” to find liability on the part of Big Lots. See Town of West Point v. Evans, 229 S.E. 2d 349, 351 (Va. 1983). oral argument adequately Accordingly, we affirm. because presented in the the facts and materials We dispense with legal contentions are before this and court argument would not aid the decisional process. AFFIRMED 2

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