OK Supreme Court Rules Convenience Stores Could Be Liable If Selling Beer to Intoxicated Customers

The same rule of law that applies to a bartender serving an intoxicated person, also applies to convenience store clerks selling beer to an intoxicated person according to an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling issued Tuesday. The Oklahoman’s Jack Money writes the Court was divided in its decision saying convenience stores have a statutory responsibility to restrict sales to a noticeably intoxicated person. The case stems from a fatal DUI case in which a driver who killed one person and injured another was already drunk when he purchased beer from a convenience store hours before the wreck.

Read The Oklahoman story here.


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