S & R Lake Lounge, Inc. v. New York State Liquor Authority

Friedmann, J., dissents and votes to confirm the determination, with the following memorandum:

The record establishes that S & R Lake Lounge (hereinafter the Lounge) was a topless go-go bar whose entertainment fee was included in the "additional cost of [each customer’s] first drink”. The Lounge’s witnesses testified that its doorman admitted the decedent after he displayed false identification. However, the police officer who subsequently inventoried the decedent’s personal effects found a variety of identification documents, but no false ones. Moreover, the decedent’s two friends testified…