Gonzalez v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Finding that the defendant created the dangerous condition requires ‘some affirmative act’ on the part of the defendant.”
• “Finding that the defendant created the dangerous condition requires ‘some affirmative act’ on the part of the defendant.”
• explaining that, for a slip-and-fall premises liability case, “the plaintiff must demonstrate that the landowner created the condition that caused the injury, or that the landowner had actual or constructive notice of the condition”
• granting summary judgment to defendant given the absence of any evidence that the defendant created the hazard (a plastic rope in the parking lot)
• noting the absence of evidence that the hazard – a rope – was dirty or worn
• constructive notice requires evidence of defendant’s awareness of particular conditions that caused the accident

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).