Newsome v. Haffner

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the statute is clearly designed to protect minors from the harm that could result from the consumption of alcohol or drugs by those who are too immature to appreciate the potential consequences
• “The statute makes a violation of this provision a criminal offense, and is clearly designed to protect minors from the harm that could result from the consumption of alcohol or drugs by those who are too immature to appreciate the potential consequences.”
• dismissal of complaint filed under “open house party” statute reversed where injury involved minor’s self-inflicted gunshot wound, and contention that injury was freakish and improbable chain of events outside ambit of probable cause did not justify dismissal of complaint
• dismissal of complaint filed under “open house party” statute reversed where injury involved minor’s self-inflicted gunshot wound, and contention that injury was freakish and improbable chain of events outside ambit of probable cause did not justify dismissal of complaint
• describing the purpose and effect of the statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).