Beach Lake United Methodist Church v. Commonwealth

PALLADINO, Judge.

This is a reargument of a case initially reported in Beach Lake Methodist Church v. Kuester’s, Inc., d/b/a Kuester’s Hotel, — Pa.Commonwealth Ct. -, 548 A.2d 388 (1988) {Beach Lake I). We granted Kuester’s Inc. d/b/a Kuester’s Hotel (Kuester) petition for reargument to consider whether the supreme court’s decision in Adair v. Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, 519 Pa. 103, 546 A.2d 19 (1988) is to be applied to liquor license application cases. The impact of Adair on liquor license application cases was not briefed in Beach Lake I.

On July 1, 1986, Kuester applied for a new…