ACOTT VENTURES v. ALCOHOLIC BEV. CONTROL

No. 14-AA-830.

135 A.3d 80 (2016)

ACOTT VENTURES, LLC t/a Shadow Room, Petitioner, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL BOARD, Respondent, and Chris Labas, Florence Harmon, Michael Macchiaroli, Trevor Neve, Deborah Neve, Betty Dow and Barbara Searle, Intervenors.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 17, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew August LeFande , Arlington, VA, for the petitioner.

Karl A. Racine , Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Todd S. Kim , Solicitor General, Loren L. AliKhan , Deputy Solicitor General, and Richard S. Love , Senior Assistant Attorney General, filed a statement in lieu of a brief in support of the respondent.

Cornish F. Hitchcock , Washington, DC, for the intervenors.

Before THOMPSON and EASTERLY, Associate Judges, and KRAVITZ, Associate Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia.


The Shadow Room nightclub challenges a decision of the District of Columbia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board requiring the club to retain a reimbursable Metropolitan Police Department detail as a condition of the renewal of its liquor license. Shadow Room contends that the Board misallocated the burden of proof and erroneously...

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