# Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board v. TLK, Inc.

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · July 27, 1988 · 518 Pa. 500

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9732248

## Case

- **Full name:** PENNSYLVANIA LIQUOR CONTROL BOARD, Appellee, v. TLK, INC., T/A Peter P’s, Appellant
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** July 27, 1988
- **Citations:** 518 Pa. 500; 544 A.2d 931; 1988 Pa. LEXIS 201
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by McDERMOTT
- **Judges:** Nix, Larsen, Flaherty, McDermott, Zappala, Papadakos, Stout
- **Cited by:** 31 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

McDERMOTT, Justice,
concurring.
I cannot accept the majority’s dichotomous analysis of section 471 of the Liquor Code. 1 It has long been the law that a liquor licensee’s transgressions of the criminal law should be treated in the same manner as liquor law violations. See Sobel Liquor License Case, 211 Pa.Super. 129 , 235 A.2d 623 (1967); Dubin Liquor License Case, 210 Pa.Super. 346 , 234 A.2d 7 (1967). The General Assembly has had ample time and opportunity to change this construction of the statute, but has not done so. I see no reason for us to change it now. Therefore, I dissociate myself from the majority opinion and concur in the result only.
. Act of April 12, P.L. 90, art. IV § 471, as amended 47 P.S. § 4-471.

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