MacARTHUR LIQUORS, INC. v. PALISADES CITIZENS ASS'N, INC.

Nos. 14645, 14697, 14703, 14786.

265 F.2d 372 (1959)

MacARTHUR LIQUORS, INC., Appellant, v. PALISADES CITIZENS ASSOCIATION, INCORPORATED, et al., Appellees. PALISADES CITIZENS ASSOCIATION, INCORPORATED, Appellant, v. Frank E. WEAKLY, et al., Members of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board of the District of Columbia, and MacArthur Liquors, Inc., a corporation, Appellees (two cases). Frank E. WEAKLY, et al., Members of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board of the District of Columbia, Appellants, v. PALISADES CITIZENS ASSOCIATION, INC., et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 19, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. F. Joseph Donohue, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. J. E. Bindeman and Leonard W. Burka, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant in No. 14645 and appellee MacArthur Liquors, Inc., in Nos. 14697 and 14703. Mr. Dexter M. Kohn, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellee MacArthur Liquors, Inc., in Nos. 14697 and 14703.

Mr. Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corp. Counsel for the District of Columbia, with whom Messrs. Chester H. Gray, Corp. Counsel, Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for appellees Frank E. Weakly, and others, in Nos. 14697 and 14703, and appellants in No. 14786.

Mr. Louis F. Oberdorfer, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. James M. Earnest and Carl R. Burns, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant in Nos. 14697 and 14703, and appellees in Nos. 14645 and 14786.

Before EDGERTON, WILBUR K. MILLER, and BURGER, Circuit Judges.


EDGERTON, Circuit Judge.

These appeals grow out of efforts to set aside successive licenses for the operation of a single retail liquor store at two different locations on MacArthur Boulevard. The licensee and the members of the licensing Board, who were the defendants in the District Court, appeal from a preliminary injunction. But the District Court's final judgments were in their favor, and their appeals will therefore be dismissed as moot.

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