[Sudetenland]

BANG!

Not shooting the messenger, but bad law doesn't mean just law. All of these tort laws that have come into being recently seem more designed to feed lawyers and absolve individuals from taking responsibility for their own actions.

Why on Earth should it be a bartender's responsibility to ride herd on how much an individual drinks? Why is it not that persons responsibility. The only reason these laws exist is because businesses have deeper pockets than some schmuck who drinks too much and causes an accident. It's pathetic and it is one of the reasons our society is in decline . . . no one wants to take responsibility for their own actions.

[Graybeard58]

All of these tort laws that have come into being recently

Dram shop laws have been in existence since before our constitution, we got ours from English laws.

no one wants to take responsibility for their own actions.

That's been the argument against them since they were written but they still are on the books. That's why she got a lawyer to take the case, she has a good chance of winning - not that I agree with it.