California Supreme Court
Dec. 7, 2013
Can party host be held liable for alcohol-related accident?
The state Supreme Court debated whether the "admission fee" a woman charged to her party the equivalent of selling alcohol that ended with the death of a 19-year-old man.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - It was not unlike many high school or college parties. In 2007, 20-year old Jessica Manosa invited friends to a house party she was throwing at a vacant house owned by her parents. Over the course of the night, dozens of people - many of them minors - showed up. Manosa charged $3 to $5 to people she didn't know.
But then, an overly intoxicated 20-year-old partygoer got into a car and...
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