Beaudreau

INTRODUCTION

Paul Beaudreau appeals from a judgment entered after the trial court granted summary judgment to respondents Seal Beach Village LP; Seal Beach Village 1 SPE, Inc.; and Burnham USA Equities, Inc. (Respondents). Beaudreau sued Respondents when he was seriously injured after a vehicle being parked at the Seal Beach Village shopping center jumped a concrete wheel stop and a curb, pinning him against a concrete planter. He alleged the layout of the parking lot and the shopping center made the accident foreseeable, and Respondents had a duty to protect him against it. We affirm the judgment. We have previously spoken to this issue, and that case is directly on point. It holds that except for a few carefully defined circumstances, a commercial property owner has no duty to protect its customers from the third -party negligence curb-jumping vehicles represent. Those circumstances do not obtain here, and we do not accept Beaudreau’s invitation to abandon that decision and disturb more than a quarter-century of reliance on its clear guidelines. Abandonment of stare decisis in this case would put additional burdens on businesses and commercial real estate and result in…