Legal Opinion
Cosio v. District of Columbia
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided January 17, 2008No. 06-CV-1037PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FARRELL, Associate Judge:
Appellant (hereafter Cosio) sued the District of Columbia for negligence based on injuries he allegedly suffered when he slipped and fell in a shower area at the Lorton Maximum Security Facility, where he was imprisoned at the time. The complaint alleged that Cosio had fallen “due to an accumulation of water ... on the floor” which in turn resulted from “the shower stalls leaking water and broken water pipes,” and that the District, which operated the prison, had been (at least) constructively aware of the accumulating water and had done nothing about it.
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2Cases cited12 opinions
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