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BILES v. RICHTER

Docket No. C001996.

206 Cal.App.3d 325 (1988)

253 Cal. Rptr. 414

MELVIN BILES, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. KENNETH RICHTER et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

November 30, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Monroy & Weiss and Jon F. Monroy for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Price, Price, Brown & Halsey and Philip B. Price for Defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

SIMS, J.

(1a) In this case we hold that the immunity from tort liability afforded a social host who furnishes alcohol (Civ. Code, § 1714, subd. (c))1 cannot be circumvented by positing a duty upon the social host to supervise guests to whom he furnished alcohol. (All further statutory references are to the Civil Code unless otherwise indicated.)

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