Weidenfeller v. Star & Garter

How courts have described this case

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• allocating 20% fault to a bar which failed to protect a patron and 75% to intentional attacker
• allocating 20% fault to a bar which failed to protect a patron and 75% to intentional attacker
• an intentional tortfeasor cannot rely on someone else’s negligence to shift responsibility for his or her own conduct
• \[T]he purpose of section 1431.2 is to prevent the unfairness of requiring a tortfeasor who is only minimally culpable as compared to the other parties to bear all the damages.\
• “the purpose of [the comparative fault statute] is to prevent the unfairness of requiring a tortfeasor who is only minimally culpable as compared to the other parties to bear all the damages” [emphasis in original]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).