Dawson v. New York State Liquor Authority

—Yesawich Jr., J.

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Appellate Division, Second Department) to review a determination of respondent which revoked petitioner’s liquor license.

Petitioner is the sole shareholder and president of Richard Dawson Corporation, which, as owner and operator of a bar known as the Camelot Club in the Village of Spring Valley, Rockland County, holds a license to sell liquor at the club. In November 1990, respondent sought to cancel or revoke petitioner’s liquor license on the ground that, inter alia, the club had become the…