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Lehigh Casino, Inc. Liquor License Case

Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Jun 11, 1958
142 A.2d 495 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1958)

Opinion

March 26, 1958.

June 11, 1958.

Constitutional law — Freedom of speech — Obscenity — Words and Phrases — "Lewd" — Liquor law — License — Revocation — Certainty of language — Evidence — Right to jury trial — Regulations of board — Prohibiting entertainers from associating with patrons — The Liquor Code.

1. Tahiti Bar, Incorporated Liquor License Case, 186 Pa. Super. 214, followed.

Before RHODES, P.J., GUNTHER, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE, ERVIN, and WATKINS, JJ. (HIRT, J., absent).

Appeal, No. 96, Oct. T., 1958, from order of Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia County, Jan. T., 1957, No. 1135, in case of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Lehigh Casino, Incorporated. Order affirmed; reargument refused June 30, 1958.

Appeal by licensee from decision of Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board suspending restaurant liquor license and amusement permit. Before LEWIS, P.J.

Order entered dismissing appeal. Licensee appealed.

Stanley M. Greenberg, with him Bernard S. Ochman, for appellant.

Russell C. Wismer, Special Assistant Attorney General, with him Horace A. Segelbaum, Deputy Attorney General, and Thomas D. McBride, Attorney General, for appellee.


Argued March 26, 1958.


The facts and law involved in this appeal are the same as those which were involved in Tahiti Bar, Incorporated Liquor License Case, 186 Pa. Super. 214. Our decision in the Tahiti Bar case controls this case.

The order is affirmed.


Summaries of

Lehigh Casino, Inc. Liquor License Case

Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Jun 11, 1958
142 A.2d 495 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1958)
Case details for

Lehigh Casino, Inc. Liquor License Case

Case Details

Full title:Lehigh Casino, Incorporated Liquor License Case

Court:Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Date published: Jun 11, 1958

Citations

142 A.2d 495 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1958)
142 A.2d 495

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