Salgado v. Costco Wholesale Corporation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION FELIPA SALGADO, ) ) Plaintiff, ) No. 20 cv 1869 ) v. ) Magistrate Judge Susan E. Cox ) COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION, ) ) Defendant. ) ) MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER This lawsuit stems from a slip and fall accident at Defendant Costco’s premises. Defendant contends Plaintiff slipped and fell on a natural accumulation of rainwater and, thus, it owed no legal duty to Plaintiff to ameliorate that accumulation. Plaintiff seems to agree the accumulation was natural, as she alleges an exception to the natural accumulation…