In re the Accounting of McClancy

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• explaining that there are three “essential factors to be considered” in determining “if a private right of action may fairly be implied”
• finding that the plaintiff, a minor, was part of the class whose particular benefit a statute criminalizing the provision of alcoholic beverages to “those under legal purchase age” was enacted because she was “clearly within this category”
• refusing “to recognize a common-law cause of action against providers of alcoholic beverages in favor of persons injured as a result of their own voluntary intoxication”
• It would be incompatible with the enforcement mechanism chosen by the Legislature to judicially create an action where legislation has not previously addressed it.
• party injured by his own voluntary consumption of liquor did not have cause of action against provider of alcohol
• A common-law cause of action will not be recognized against providers of alcoholic beverages in favor of persons injured as a result of their own voluntary intoxication.

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