El Chico Corp. v. Poole

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the applicable standard of care \may\ be determined by a penal statute
• holding that the applicable standard of care “may” be determined by a penal statute
• recognizing that it is foreseeable that the sale of alcohol to a minor will result in the minor driving while intoxicated and causing injury to himself or others
• holding that the applicable standard of care \may\ be determined by a penal statute
• stating that with the enactment of Section 2.02 of the Alcoholic Beverage Code, the Legislature created a more onerous burden of proof for a plaintiff
• explaining that the foreseeability element means that “the actor as a person of ordinary intelligence should have anticipated the dangers his negligent act creates for others”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).