Be a Parent, Not a Pal

more than 10 years before the massachusetts legislature expanded the law prohibiting the delivery or sale of alcohol to minors to include allowing a person under the age of 21 to possiss alcoholic beverages, richard campbell was arguing to the supreme judicial court of massachusetts to hold a homeowner liable for catastrophic injuries suffered by a woman whose vehical was struck by a car driven by an intoxicated high school student. the student had been consuming alcohol at a party held by a homeowner's daughter. langemann v. davis became one of the watershed cases that led to the development of a true social host law in massachusetts. following the amendment of the statute, richard campbell and his law firm campbell campbell edwards & conroy (http://www.campbell-trial-lawyers.com), created a multi-media program, be a parent, not a pal, to educate students, parents, teachers, and members of the community about the new social host law and to illustrate the legal consequences of allowing