Lopez Ex Rel. Lopez v. Maez

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• concluding that tavern-keepers have a duty to foreseeable third parties harmed when the tavern-keeper serves an intoxicated individual alcohol
• recognizing that the existence of a duty may be established by the enactment of a regulation or statute
• establishing that a tavern owner owes a duty to third parties that may be harmed by his inebriated patrons
• establishing that a tavern owner owes a duty to third parties that may be harmed by his inebriated patrons
• discussing proximate cause as that which in a natural and continuous sequence unbroken by any new independent cause produces the injury and without which injury would not have occurred
• stating requirements for negligence claim: duty, breach, proximate causation, and damages

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