Missouri Realty Corp. v. New York State Liquor Authority

This case presents cross appeals from an order of the Appellate Division, First Department, which modified, on the law and the facts and in the exercise of discretion, a determination of the New York State Liquor Authority canceling petitioner’s restaurant liquor license with a $500 bond claim, by reducing the penalty to 15 days’ suspension and a bond forfeiture of $150.

It was found, after a hearing, that an employee of the petitioner had enticed an 8-year-old boy to accompany him to a second-floor bathroom in the licensed premises and had acted with him in a lewd and indecent manner, and…