Matunuck Beach Hotel, Inc. v. Sheldon

These three cases involve the Matunuck Beach Hotel, Inc. (the hotel), a tavern located in the town of South Kingstown, and its attempts to obtain a liquor license. In one of the cases we issued a writ of certiorari to review a decision of the state liquor control administrator (the administrator) overruling the local license commissioners’ (the commissioners) denial of the hotel’s initial application for an annual class B tavern alcoholic beverage license. Bischoff v. Sarkas, 117 R.I. 903, 360 A.2d 879 (1976). In another case, we issued a writ of certiorari to review the administrator’s…