Mulvihill v. Union Oil Co. of California

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a volunteer designated driver had undertaken a duty to third parties, but had discharged that duty upon the delivery of the intoxicated individual to his house
• inference that defendant undertook duty of care was not reasonable because \reasonable people could not differ on the nature and extent of this voluntanly undertaken duty\
• Company sponsored a Christmas party, court determined company was a social host and could not be held liable for injuries resulting from furnishing alcoholic beverages to intoxicated person later involved in accident
• AS 04.21.020 extended civil immunity to employer acting as social host by providing alcohol to employees at holiday party
• nature and extent of duty undertaken is question of law for court; and extending duty of sober driver beyond agreement to drive would be poor policy, as it would jeopardize designated driver movement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).