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Evidence of a driver’s intoxication after leaving a bar should have gone to the jury, Iowa Supreme Court rules

The fact that a person is intoxicated shortly after leaving a bar is sufficient evidence to submit to a jury in a lawsuit alleging liability under Iowa’s dramshop statute. Thus said a divided Iowa Supreme Court on March 30 in Banwart v. 50th Street Sports. The...

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Evidence of a driver’s intoxication after leaving a bar should have gone to the jury, Iowa Supreme Court rules

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