Trujillo

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

I. Facts

Around 11 p.m. on a Sunday night in July 2018, Ana Isabella Trujillo (plaintiff) decided to go for a jog with her sister. She took a route she had run over 100 times before. This time, however, she tripped on an uneven sidewalk in front of a house on Pickford Street in the City of Los Angeles (the City). The seam between two sidewalk squares where she tripped was offset between .75 and 1.0625 inches. Plaintiff fell and sustained injuries. The City had not received any complaints or requests for repair for this stretch of sidewalk.

All further statutory references are to the Code of Civil Procedure unless otherwise indicated.

II. Procedural Background

A. Plaintiff sues In March 2019, plaintiff sued the City for its negligence in maintaining the City-owned sidewalk in a dangerous condition.2 B. City moves for summary judgment In September 2020, the City moved for summary judgment on the ground that the sidewalk was not a “dangerous condition” because the differential in elevation between the two sidewalk squares was trivial—and hence, not “dangerous”—as a matter of law. After a full round of briefing, the trial court…