The Free Press, Mankato, MN - Drinking death lawsuit to be filed Thursday

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This photo is to be used as an exhibit in a wrongful death lawsuit attorneys say will be filed Thursday. It allegedly shows Amanda Jax taking her last shot before dying of acute alcohol poisoning Oct. 30. Jax’s face is hidden by the shirt sleeve at right. Alan Milavetz, attorney for Jax’s mother, Jenny Haag, said the bartender at Sidelines Bar and Grill, whose arm is to the left, aske someone to take this picture after giving out a round of shots.
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Published February 26, 2008 11:46 pm - A civil suit stemming from the drinking death of Amanda Jax is to be filed Thursday.

Drinking death lawsuit to be filed Thursday
Bar, drinking companions named

By Dan Nienaber
Free Press Staff Writer

MANKATO —

A lawsuit attorneys plan to file Thursday on behalf of Amanda Jax’s mother describes a deadly two hours of drinking they claim could have been stopped by a downtown bartender.

Sidelines Bar and Grill was served with the lawsuit’s summons and complaint in late January or early February, said Alan Milavetz, the lawyer hired by Jax’s mother, Jenny Haag.

Jax died after drinking the equivalent of 17 shots of alcohol while celebrating her 21st birthday at the bar on Oct. 29.

An exhibit included in the paperwork is a picture Milavetz describes as Jax taking her last shot, a mixture of cherry vodka and an energy drink called a “cherry bomb,” with her friends and the bartender, Beau Ryan.

Those friends, also named as defendants in the lawsuit, took pictures of Jax as she sat unconscious outside Sidelines, according to the civil complaint.

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