Van Cleave v. Kietz-Mill Minit Mart

How courts have described this case

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

• knowing sale of alcoholic beverages to minors in violation of the law did not amount to willful or wanton misconduct
• defining 8 willful misconduct as an act “that the actor knows, or should know, will very probably cause 9 harm” (quotations and citations omitted)
• Willful misconduct is an act “that the actor knows, or should know, will very probably cause harm”
• even where initial sale was to minor, foreseeability of subsequent distributions eventually leading to accident was too attenuated to warrant finding of proximate cause
• even where initial sale was to minor, foreseeability of subsequent distributions eventually leading to accident was too attenuated to warrant finding of proximate cause
• willful misconduct described as an act “ ‘that the actor knows, or should know, will very probably cause harm’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).