Lowering the Bar on the complaint in a San Francisco trip-fall case:

Sure, you could write “plaintiff tripped on the curb,” but that almost makes it sound like it might have been plaintiff’s fault. Writing instead that “the curb disrupted the motion of plaintiff’s foot” makes it clear that the curb was the bad actor here. …

The curb’s co-defendant, Gravity, settled before trial.

Filed under: San Francisco, slip and fall