In Tennesssee, it's a crime to provide alcoholic beverages to minors. It's a crime to provide alcoholic beverages to the visibly or obviously intoxicated.

Commercial establishments that sell alcoholic beverages to minors or to customers already intoxicated may share civil responsibility to innocent victims for injuries or wrongful death caused by the wrong-doing of such minors and intoxicated patrons. This responsibility sellers and servers of alcoholic beverages assume is called "Dram Shop Law."
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