In Camille Sedar v. Reston Town Center Property, LLC, the Fourth Circuit gave a master class in the application of the summary judgment standard.
The case arose out of a trip and fall at Reston Town Center. The plaintiff was walking with her colleagues out of the parking garage. As she begun to descend the concrete stairs, she tripped and fell down the stairs, face first. She hit her face on the ground, lost consciousness, and suffered relatively severe injuries.
While none of her colleagues actually saw her fall, they did notice loose bricks at the top of the stairs after she fell. Her colleagues took photographs and a video of the scene immediately following the fall, which depict uneven bricks and sagging caulk between the bricks and the top step. The plaintiff filed suit against the property owner and property manager for negligence.