Poplaski v. Lamphere

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an employer owed no duty to a third party who was injured by an intoxicated employee driving home from work where that employee arrived at work intoxicated and left two hours later without speaking to a supervisor
• explaining that summary judgment motions should be decided after there has been “an adequate time for discovery”
• stating that summary judgment is mandated when, after adequate period of time for discovery, party fails to establish elements essential to his case
• noting that summary judgment is mandated where party “fails to make a showing sufficient to establish the existence of an element essential” to the case
• finding employer did not “take control” of intoxicated employee such that a duty to third persons arose
• adequate time for discovery where sixteen months between complaint and summary judgment hearing and eight months since signing of discovery schedule

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