Dowling v. Cleveland Clinic Foundation

OPINION

BOYCE F. MARTIN, JR., Circuit Judge.

Patricia Dowling slipped and fell in a puddle of water while walking down a hallway adjacent to the cafeteria at the Cleveland Clinic. Appellants Patricia and Curtis Dowling filed an action against appellees the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, the Cleveland Clinic, and Cleveland Clinic Health System (collectively, “the Clinic”) in federal court on the basis of diversity jurisdiction. The Dowlings appeal the district court’s grant of summary judgment for the Clinic. However, because the Dowlings did not proffer any evidence of how long the water hazard…