On May 20, 2016, plaintiff Ethan Kalnins, 17, a special education student who has cerebral palsy and left-side hemiparesis, was attending an end-of-the-school-year senior salute assembly at La Cañada High School’s Hotchkin Family Gymnasium when he fell off the side of the bleachers. He landed on his weak side and sustained to his left hip. Ethan sued the operator of the school, La Cañada Unified School District. Ethan alleged the school district failed to properly repair and/or maintain the bleachers, creating a dangerous condition. Specifically, he alleged that the telescopic bleachers were missing guardrails that could have prevented his fall. The school district formally admitted that the bleachers were dangerous on May 20, 2016 and that it had the power to prevent, fix or guard against the bleachers’ dangerous condition. It also admitted that it had notice of the dangerous condition for a long enough time that it could have protected against it and that the dangerous condition was a substantial factor in causing Ethan harm., Ethan was rushed by paramedics to Huntington Memorial Hospital, in Pasadena, where he was diagnosed with a left femur fracture. Ethan underwent surgery and spent five days in the hospital under observation. He spent nearly a month afterward rehabilitating at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and was confined to a wheelchair throughout that summer.