A federal judge has tossed out a woman’s lawsuit against Home Depot over the deaths of her husband and two children who had sought refuge inside the big-box store destroyed during the devastating 2011 tornado in Joplin, Missouri.
U.S. District Judge Douglas Harpool threw out Edie Howard Housel’s wrongful-death case Thursday at Home Depot’s request, ruling the woman failed to sufficiently prove any design failures of the 11-year-old store were to blame.
