Man locked in bathroom on prank can’t sue for false imprisonment

An employee who may have expected to be locked in a cruise ship lavatory in a prank by his fellow employees cannot sue for false imprisonment, an appeals court has ruled in upholding a jury’s finding in the case. According to last week’s decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati in Steven A. Slasinski and Karen L. Slasinski vs. Confirma Inc. and Dan Bickford, Ward Sparacio and Dave Wolfe, Mr. Slasinski, a regional sales manager for Bellevue, Wash.-based Confirma Inc. attended a work-related dinner on a cruise ship in Bellevue on July 25, 2007.