Kopff v. District of Columbia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board

FERREN, Associate Judge:

We are presented with a petition to review the issuance of a “Class C” liquor license by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board (“ABC Board”) to the intervenor, C.J.K., Inc. (“C.J.K.”). Many of the questions presented involve commonly alleged procedural irregularities; the central issue, however, is a matter of first impression— the role of the recently created Advisory Neighborhood Commissions (“ANCs”) in ABC Board hearings. For reasons elaborated below, we remand this proceeding to the ABC Board for a new hearing, in order to cure defects in the notice of the hearing…