SHARON P. v. ARMAN, LTD.

No. S063612.

91 Cal.Rptr.2d 35 (1999)

989 P.2d 121

21 Cal.4th 1181

SHARON P., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. ARMAN, LTD., et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

December 16, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of Peter B. O'Brien, Peter B. O'Brien and Kelly L. Duenckel, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Early, Maslach, Price & Baukol, Larry E. Robinson, Los Angeles; Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, Marc J. Poster and Robert A. Olson, Beverly Hills, for Defendant and Respondent Arman, Ltd.

Acker, Kowalick & Whipple, Stephen Acker, Los Angeles, Jerri Lynn Johnson and A. Gina Hogtanian, for Defendant and Respondent APCOA, Inc.

Prindle, Decker & Amaro and Gary E. Yardumian, Long Beach, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent APCOA, Inc.

Sharon L. Browne, Sacramento, and Stephen R. McCutcheon, Jr., for Pacific Legal Foundation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Susan Liebeler; Daniel J. Popeo; and Richard A. Samp, Arlington, VA, for Washington Legal Foundation and Allied Educational Foundation as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Fred J. Hiestand, Sacramento, for the Association for California Tort Reform as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and Nicholas B. Waranoff, San Francisco, for International Council of Shopping Centers as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Haight, Brown & Bonesteel, Roy G. Weatherup, Thomas N. Charchut, Rita Gunasekaran and Stephen M. Caine, Santa Monica, for Bank of America, N.T. & S.A., Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., National Parking Association, Parking Association of California and Association of Southern California Defense Counsel as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Paul D. Fogel, San Francisco, and Bradley S. De-Jean for California Contract Security Guard Association, American Protective Services, Inc., Borg-Warner Protective Services Corp., and Pinkerton's, Inc., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.


BAXTER, J.

In Ann M. v. Pacific Plaza Shopping Center (1993) 6 Cal.4th 666 (Ann M.), we discussed the scope of a commercial landlord's duty of care and affirmed that it includes the taking of "reasonable steps to secure common areas against foreseeable criminal acts of third parties that are likely to occur in the absence of such precautionary measures." (6 Cal.4th at p. 674, 25 Cal.Rptr.2d...

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