Pursuant to the open and obvious defense to premises liability claims, a court rules as a matter of law that no duty exists to protect a plaintiff who voluntarily encounters an open and obvious hazard. Conventional…

It has been the conventional wisdom in Minnesota that the Minnesota Dram Shop Act, Minn. Stat. § 340A.801 & .802, operates as a penal “strict liability” statute of sorts against restaurants and bars that overserve…