California Court of Appeal

Summary judgment for defendant on plaintiff's negligence claim arising from being shot by one of defendant's tenants is reversed where defendant failed to carry his initial burden on summary judgment to show he owed no duty to undertake minimally burdensome measures to alleviate the risk posed by a violent tenant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/13/2007
• Published 06/13/2007

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Emling Forensis and Michael J. Emling, Long Beach, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Law Offices of Richard J. Wianecki, Paul W. Rosenfield and Dana C. Clark, for Defendant and Respondent.