NOT FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

EILEEN FAST, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, 

 v. 

ANGELS MANAGEMENT, INC., DBA 

Gold Beach Resort, 

Defendant-Appellee.

No. 17-35010 

D.C. No. 6:16-cv-00060-MC 

MEMORANDUM*

Appeal from the United States District Court

for the District of Oregon

Michael J. McShane, District Judge, Presiding

Submitted May 18, 2018**

Portland, Oregon

Before: McKEOWN and PAEZ, Circuit Judges, and LASNIK,*** District Judge.

Eileen Fast appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor 

of Angels Management, Inc. in this diversity action alleging negligence under 

 

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent 

except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.

** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision 

without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).

*** The Honorable Robert S. Lasnik, United States District Judge for the 

Western District of Washington, sitting by designation.

FILED

MAY 25 2018

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
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Oregon law. Fast tripped and fell over a wheel stop in a parking lot at the Gold 

Beach Resort in Western Oregon, injuring her shoulder and enduring significant 

pain. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.

On de novo review, see Reynaga v. Roseburg Forest Products, 847 F.3d 

678, 685 (9th Cir. 2017), the district court did not err in granting summary 

judgment to Angels Management and finding that the challenged wheel stop was 

not an “unreasonably dangerous condition” on the premises. See Maas v. Willer, 

203 Or. App. 124, 133–34 (2005) (“A condition is not unreasonably dangerous if 

the hazard arising from it would be known and understood by reasonable persons 

expected to encounter the condition.” (internal quotation marks and citation 

omitted)). Nor did the court err in finding that the stop did not create an 

“unreasonable risk of harm” giving rise to a duty to warn. See, e.g., Ault v. Del 

Var Properties, LLC, 281 Or. App. 840, 849–50 (2016); Andrews v. R.W. Hays 

Co., 166 Or. App. 494, 505 (2000). 

The wheel stop was painted bright white, contrasting with the black asphalt 

of the parking lot. It rose a few inches from the ground, and was positioned where 

the ordinary person would expect it to be—at the head of a parking space. The 

stop was in a straight row of several such wheel stops. It was located a few feet 

from a row of columns holding up the resort convention center roof, and several 

more feet from the actual convention center doors. Fast tripped over the stop in 
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broad daylight. The area, including the stop, was dry and in normal condition.

The stop was not an unreasonably dangerous condition, nor did it present an 

unreasonable risk of harm that might give rise to liability. See Glorioso v. Ness, 

191 Or. App. 637, 645 (2004) (“A step located in a place where steps normally 

may be found . . . with no deceptive lighting, not covered with slippery substances, 

and with no established history of causing injury, does not pose an unreasonable 

risk of harm.”).

We adopt the detailed and well-reasoned analysis in the district court’s order 

entered December 16, 2016.

AFFIRMED.