Court Opinion

ID: 9785597
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-30 22:13:50.697388+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:36:30.319076
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*279KENNARD, J., Concurring.
As I pointed out in my dissenting opinion in Delgado v. Trax Bar & Grill (2005) 36 Cal.4th 244, 250 [30 Cal.Rptr.3d 145, 113 P.3d 1159] (dis. opn. of Kennard, J.), anyone reading this court’s recent decisions in Ann M. v. Pacific Plaza Shopping Center (1993) 6 Cal.4th 666 [25 Cal.Rptr.2d 137, 863 P.2d 207], and its progeny, would conclude that (1) the prior-similar-incident rule applies to premises liability claims against business owners for failing to take precautions against possible future criminal conduct of third parties when the conduct is a criminal assault by a third party, and that (2) as suggested in Kentucky Fried Chicken of Cal., Inc. v. Superior Court (1997) 14 Cal.4th 814, 823-824 [59 Cal.Rptr.2d 756, 927 P.2d 1260], the totality of circumstances rule applies when the criminal conduct is ongoing or imminent. This case, involving an ongoing criminal assault, falls within the totality-of-circumstances rule. (Kentucky Fried Chicken of Cal., Inc. v. Superior Court, supra, 14 Cal.4th at p. 823.)