alt Hacker NewsYes, you are. If a dog mauls someone, it’s the owner that’s responsible. This is basic common law, long established.
See People v. Knoller, 41 Cal. 4th 139 (2007). https://capcentral.org/case_summaries/people-v-knoller/
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>If a dog mauls someone, it’s the owner that’s responsible. This is basic common law, long established.
That's specifically not what the court case says.
>Malice is implied when the killing is proximately
>caused by “ ‘an act, the natural consequences of which are dangerous to life,
>which act was deliberately performed by a person who knows that his conduct
>endangers the life of another and who acts with conscious disregard for life
https://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/people-v-knoller-33726
The rest of the court case also mentions a long history of the dog being dangerous and the owner failing to restrain the dog.
See California Civil Code § 3342(a).; https://california.public.law/codes/civil_code_section_3342
“…regardless of the former viciousness of the dog or the owner’s knowledge of such viciousness.”