Zowaski v. Speedway LLC

Memorandum Opinion

NORMAN K. MOON, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

This is a diversity1 tort case arising out of a trucker’s slip-and-fall in the bathroom shower at a WilcoHess gas station/“travel plaza” in northwestern Virginia. Plaintiff Richard Zowaski (“Plaintiff’) slipped on *883water when he stepped out of a private shower he had purchased from Defendant Speedway LLC (“Defendant”). The state-court complaint asserted various theories of negligence. Defendant — after removing the case to federal court, a point of interest discussed later — now seeks summary judgment, arguing that contributory…