Will and establishment be charged if they let a customer leave intoxicated?!
Will and establishment be charged if they let a customer leave intoxicated?
Answers:
Yes. Unfair as it may seem, the bartender is held responsible for continuing to serve a customer who is inebriated.
Only if the person is underage, otherwise all bars would have been closed down by now!!
no, unfortunately they don't get charged, although here, the liquor stores can turn you away if they think that you have had to much to drink. At least that is how it is in my town
It's happened here in the USA before. This is because people have caused fatality accidents.
depends on the state, not usually the establishment but ALWAYS the waitress or server...fact...sux but i knew a waitress that didn't make that call and the customer killed a kid in a car and the waitress went to court not the guy bc she didn't cut him off...i felt bad for her, but definently learned a good lesson
keepsonda, has it right
Yes.
I want to say yes, but there's been so much debate about the issue in the past, and there's always the people who try to get out of being responsible, for this and a myriad of other matters, that I'm sure lawyers and politicians have long ago "worn-out-their-welcome" trying to blame it on the "other person", that I'm not sure whether the establishment or the clerk on duty at the time or the waiter/waitress serving the table can be charged for the incident. I would hope that if the individuals serving the liquor are charged, that the drunk individual is hung from the "highest yardarm" in the land. God Bless you.
It depends upon the state of inebriation, what the bar did that lead to his drunkeness, and what happened once the person left the bar. If a guy heads into TGIFridays and they sell him drinks until he pukes, and then he leaves only to stumble into traffic ... then the bar may be guilty because they chose the customer's money over the customer's safety.
If a girl wanders into Bennigan's and has three glasses of wine with dinner, leaves and gets into an accident ... then the bar is probably safe because three glasses over dinner is fairly common and her level of sobriety would be difficult to measure.
In California they can and will be held responsible for everything that happens. It is a tough law and it's a necessary one.
This is actually a yes and no question.
It is against the law to serve an intoxicated person. That's a fact
If you serve an intoxicated person and that person becomes more intoxicated then the person who served him can be charged
That's the yes part
If a customer walks into the bar intoxicated and the bartender properly refuses to serve him , the customer gets mad and leaves then the bartender has done his job. The bartender can't physically restrain the person because he could be charged with battery