Papadopoulos v. Target Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• imposing duty to remedy “[i]f a property owner knows or reasonably should know of a dangerous condition”
• applying retroactively new common-law rule of premises liability based on abolition of distinction between natural and unnatural accumulation of snow and ice
• changing common law regarding tort liability arising from natural accumulation of snow or ice
• abolishing distinction between natural and unnatural accumulations of snow and ice
• duty to remedy exists where experience dictates that visitors will often choose to cross snow or ice-covered walkways despite risk
• “[T]he openness and obviousness of snow and ice have nothing to do with whether such accumulations are natural rather than unnatural . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).