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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN JOSE DIVISION

NATHALIE THUY VAN, 

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WAL-MART STORES, INC.,

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46. INSTRUCTION RE: JURY NOTE NO. 3

Each of these questions is for you to decide. 

California Penal Code § 490.5(f) provides: 

(1) A merchant may detain a person for a reasonable time for the purpose of conducting an 

investigation in a reasonable manner whenever the merchant has probable cause to believe the 

person to be detained is attempting to unlawfully take or has unlawfully taken merchandise from 

the merchant's premises.

A theater owner may detain a person for a reasonable time for the purpose of conducting an 

investigation in a reasonable manner whenever the theater owner has probable cause to believe the 

person to be detained is attempting to operate a video recording device within the premises of a 

motion picture theater without the authority of the owner of the theater.

A person employed by a library facility may detain a person for a reasonable time for the purpose 

of conducting an investigation in a reasonable manner whenever the person employed by a library 

facility has probable cause to believe the person to be detained is attempting to unlawfully remove 

or has unlawfully removed books or library materials from the premises of the library facility. 

(2) In making the detention a merchant, theater owner, or a person employed by a library facility 

may use a reasonable amount of nondeadly force necessary to protect himself or herself and to 

prevent escape of the person detained or the loss of tangible or intangible property. 

(3) During the period of detention any items which a merchant or theater owner, or any items 

which a person employed by a library facility has probable cause to believe are unlawfully taken 

from the premises of the merchant or library facility, or recorded on theater premises, and which 

are in plain view may be examined by the merchant, theater owner, or person employed by a 

library facility for the purposes of ascertaining the ownership thereof. 

(4) A merchant, theater owner, a person employed by a library facility, or an agent thereof, having 

probable cause to believe the person detained was attempting to unlawfully take or has taken any 

item from the premises, or was attempting to operate a video recording device within the premises 

of a motion picture theater without the authority of the owner of the theater, may request the person 

detained to voluntarily surrender the item or recording. Should the person detained refuse to 

surrender the recording or item of which there is probable cause to believe has been recorded on or 

unlawfully taken from the premises, or attempted to be recorded or unlawfully taken from the 

premises, a limited and reasonable search may be conducted by those authorized to make the 

detention in order to recover the item. Only packages, shopping bags, handbags or other property in 

the immediate possession of the person detained, but not including any clothing worn by the 

person, may be searched pursuant to this subdivision. Upon surrender or discovery of the item, the 

person detained may also be requested, but may not be required, to provide adequate proof of his or 

her true identity. 

(5) If any person admitted to a theater in which a motion picture is to be or is being exhibited, 

refuses or fails to give or surrender possession or to cease operation of any video recording device 

that the person has brought into or attempts to bring into that theater, then a theater owner shall 

have the right to refuse admission to that person or request that the person leave the premises and 

shall thereupon offer to refund and, unless that offer is refused, refund to that person the price paid 

by that person for admission to that theater. If the person thereafter refuses to leave the theater or 

cease operation of the video recording device, then the person shall be deemed to be intentionally 

interfering with and obstructing those attempting to carry on a lawful business within the meaning 

of Section 602.1. 

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