Buchaklian v. Lake County Family Young Men's Christian Ass'n

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• explaining that the open and obvious doctrine does not protect a possessor of land who “should anticipate the harm despite such knowledge or obviousness”
• finding that the “lack of significant color contrast” between a defect and the surrounding area could support a “reasonable inference” that the defect was difficult to discover
• stating that “our extensive research and review of cases in this area of law have led us to conclude that the concept of ‘duty’ in negligence cases is a clear as mud”
• finding that the condition of the mat 8 No. 1-24-1979 was not open and obvious as a matter of law in part due to the short amount of time the plaintiff had to discover the defect as she walked towards the mat
• finding a genuine issue of fact as to whether plaintiff should have seen a defect in a mat she tripped on, noting that in general such a dispute of fact could exist even if the plaintiff admitted she “could have seen the condition if [she] looked”
• whether defect in mat in locker room was open and obvious was a question of fact

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).