Overview
- During a Dec. 27 visit to Super Nintendo World’s 1 Up Factory, the parents say their autistic 7-year-old held a $16 Mario keychain as the mother handed its barcode to the father to pay after stepping outside to prevent a meltdown.
- A Universal security employee accused the family of shoplifting, they were taken to a security office, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office was called, and they received a one-year trespass warning before being told to leave.
- Days later, the family received a $200 civil demand letter from Universal’s attorneys alleging intentional deprivation of merchandise.
- Attorney Eric “Rick” Block of Morgan & Morgan sent a demand letter seeking to revoke the trespass, alleging negligence, abuse of process, libel and false imprisonment, and proposing a donation to an autism charity.
- Universal has not issued a substantive public comment on the allegations, and Block says a Universal litigation attorney has reached out to arrange talks this week.