Howard

Filed 3/13/24; Certified for Publication 4/3/24 (order attached)

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION EIGHT

MONIQUE HOWARD, B320603

Plaintiff and Appellant, Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. 19STCV08792 v.

ACCOR MANAGEMENT US,

INC.,

Defendant and Respondent.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Jill Feeney, Judge. Affirmed. Nguyen Theam Lawyers, Minh T. Nguyen; Guenard & Bozarth, Glenn Guenard, Anthony Wallen; Gusdorff Law and Janet Gusdorff for Plaintiff and Appellant. Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, Don Willenburg and Laura Ryan for Defendant and Respondent. ____________________ As Monique Howard went to shower during her hotel stay, the handheld shower head fell apart. Howard cut herself and fell. Later she sued the hotel for negligence and premises liability. The trial court granted summary judgment. We affirm because Howard failed to mount a triable issue of material fact on the key issue of notice and failed to establish the applicability of a venerable but inapt doctrine—res ipsa loquitur. I The core facts are few. In March 2017,…