Walder v. Dolgencorp d/b/a Dollar General Removed to Federal Court

A civil personal-injury action filed by plaintiff Janice Walder in Harris County on January 29, 2026 was removed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas and docketed as case number 4:26-cv-01750 on March 3, 2026. Pacermonitor’s federal entry shows the case filed and last checked at Tuesday Mar 03, 2026 6:02 PM CST; Law.com Radar records the original state filing under case id 202605944.

The two public summaries diverge on the claimed theory of liability. Law.com Radar lists the state-court case type as “civil – injury or damage - premises” and records the claims string as “Personal Injury ClaimsProperty & Premises Liability Claims.” By contrast, Pacermonitor’s federal summary classifies the matter under Nature of Suit 350 Torts - Personal Injury - Motor Vehicle and lists the cause as 28:1331 Fed. Question: Personal Injury. Those differing labels leave open whether the operative petition alleges premises liability, a motor-vehicle incident, or another factual theory; the filings themselves will be needed to resolve that discrepancy.

Counsel entries in the public summaries identify plaintiff counsel in the state filing as Arian H. Khorrami and list John Russell Davis and Dorsett Johnson as defense counsel in the Pacermonitor federal entry. The Pacermonitor excerpt also includes its internal prompt to “Create an account to get the full docket for this case,” indicating full docket text and attachments are behind a paywall in that service.

Public records for Dollar General reflect other, unrelated federal litigation and administrative actions. An archived EEOC filing from 2004 includes an EEOC-Houston District Office address at 1919 Smith Street, 7th Floor, Houston, Texas 77002 and references Dolgencorp of Texas, Inc., d/b/a Dollar General. Separately, an EEOC press release from a prior enforcement matter shows Dolgencorp, LLC agreed to pay $1 million to settle EEOC claims alleging violations of the ADA and GINA in EEOC v. Dolgencorp, LLC, Case No. 2:17-cv-01649-MHH, and that the company discontinued pre-employment medical exams for certain warehouse jobs after that suit; that matter involved a class of 498 applicants and a different federal district.

To clarify the procedural posture and the asserted basis for federal jurisdiction, the Notice of Removal filed in U.S. District Court, S.D. Tex., and the original Harris County petition should be reviewed to identify who removed the case, the precise factual allegations, any damage allegations or demands, and the specific corporate defendant entity named. The federal docket entry and the state filing together establish the basic record: Janice Walder v. Dolgencorp of Texas, Inc. d/b/a Dollar General moved from Harris County to the Southern District of Texas and now proceeds under docket number 4:26-cv-01750.