Word: calif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...empty premises. In a 1971 Iowa case, Katko vs. Briney, the State Supreme Court upheld an award of $30,000 in damages to a man who was injured by a spring gun when he broke into the upstairs bedroom of an abandoned farmhouse. In a 1974 case, San Anselmo, Calif, Homeowner Don Luis Ceballos was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon when his spring gun shot a teen-ager who tried to steal some musical instruments from his garage...
...case involved one James Coulter, an apprentice machine technician whose right side was paralyzed in a 1976 auto accident on the way home from a party in Foster City, Calif. Coulter, now 28, claims that the car slammed into a bridge abutment because its driver, a young woman, had consumed "extremely large quantities" of beer at the party. Although the court did not pass on the merits of Coulter's $1 million damage suit against the host, it overturned a lower court's ruling that the state's civil liability law applied only to bars, restaurants and liquor stores...