Editor’s note: Texas Lawyer turned 25 on April 3. To mark our anniversary, each week the editorial department is looking back at the news we covered over the past 25 years and selecting one story to update for readers. This week, senior reporter John Council updates “Court Extends Dram Shop Liability,” an article from the Aug. 12, 1991, issue of Texas Lawyer.

Four years after lawmakers passed the Texas Dram Shop Act in 1987, Dallas’ 5th Court of Appeals issued a controversial ruling that extended liability under the act by allowing an intoxicated person injured as a result of his own drunkenness to sue the alcohol provider.

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