Is the bar responsible for illegally serving Ms. Rodgers? Was she served excessively? Do you think a jury would find one hour of orientation sufficient in the guard's training? What could the owners of the Golden Spike do in the future to prevent a reoccurrence such as this?

Michele Rodgers entered the Golden Spike Bar and Grill on a Friday night at approximately 10:30 P.M. At the door, she was stopped briefly by the bar's security guard, Luis Sargota. He inspected Ms. Rodgers' photo ID as he had been trained to do during the onehour orientation class he attended on his first day of work. The photo ID presented by Ms. Rodgers showed her age to be 21 years and three months. The photo on the picture was clearly her own. She was not asked to remove the ID from her wallet. Ms. Rodgers entered the bar and, over a period of three hours, consumed five fuzzy navel drinks, each containing approximately 1.5 ounces of 80proof alcohol served with fruit juice. Upon leaving the bar at 1:30 A.M., Ms. Rodgers was involved in a traffic accident that seriously injured a man who was driving home after working the late shift at a local factory. The family of the injured man sued Michele and the Golden Spike when it was discovered that Michele was, in fact, only 20 years old, and thus was not of legal age to drink alcohol. The attorney for the Golden Spike maintained that the bar acted responsibly in that it trained its security guards to check for identification prior to allowing admission to the bar and that Ms. Rodgers had presented a falsified identification card that the bar could not reasonably have known was false. In addition, the security guard stated that Ms. Rodgers "looked" at least 21 when she entered the bar. Thus, the bar was not guilty of knowingly serving minors.