Friend of Amanda Jax's no longer being sued over binge-drinking death

By PAUL WALSH, Star Tribune Seems like the family is doing everything they can to blaim others and make them take responsiblity for what their daughter did. She drank … read more herself to death. Unless these people where physically shoving it down her throat against her will they should not be held liable. Part of being an adult is making rational decisions for your own well being. Obviously they did not teach their daughter that. One of the college-age friends of Amanda Jax, the Twin Cities woman who drank herself to death celebrating her 21st birthday in a Mankato bar last year and registered an almost unheard of blood-alcohol reading, is no longer being targeted by the family in a lawsuit, Blue Earth County court records this afternoon show. Removed as a defendant is Hannah Becker, of Monticello, Minn., a student at... [read full story]