Monday, February 27, 2012

Criminal Responsibility in the News

Once again the criminal responsibility for the conduct of another status in our Tennessee law has hit the news. The Tennessean in an article by Brandon Gee asks whether a bar could be held responsible for the actions of an impaired customer. They have not touched the liability issue concerning parental hosts, who feed alcohol to teen partiers or the methadone clinic that gives a week of doses to an addict in one visit and crashes into a family or the pill mill that supplies drugs to an abuser without checking him/her out. All of the above could be in a relationship, which puts them in a category of responsibility under our law.

Read the article at:
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120225/NEWS01/302250022/DUI-deaths-spur-questions-about-bars-liability

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