Giannuzzi v. State of California

Opinion

POCHÉ, J.

Plaintiff Anthony Giannuzzi seeks damages for injuries he suffered while riding his motorcycle on a trail within the Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Park which is owned and operated by defendant State of California. According to plaintiff’s first amended complaint, on Christmas Eve of 1990 he was riding his motorcycle on “an established dirt trail leading over the top of ... an unimproved hill in the park,” unaware that the state had moved quantities of dirt, thereby forming “large, loose dirt pilings at the bottom of this hill . . . directly in the path of the previously…