Knight v. Rower

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that a social host must furnish alcohol through “some affirmative act or active part in the provision of alcohol”
• noting that furnishing requires an affirmative act or active part in providing the alcohol
• requiring plaintiffs to show that defendants “possess [ed] or control[led]” the alcoholic beverages provided to the visibly-intoxicated guest
• “furnishing” alcohol within the meaning of state Dram Shop Act “connotes possession or control of the alcoholic beverage by the furnisher” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “[T]his Court takes as true all well-pleaded factual allegations in the nonmovant’s pleadings and all reasonable inferences to be drawn from them.” (emphasis added)
• judgment warranted only if “pleadings contain no allegation that would permit recovery”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).