Court Opinion

ID: 9657481
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 20:27:31.386621+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:45.507276
License: Public Domain

YETKA, Justice
(concurring specially).
I concur in the majority opinion, but only because, in our role as an appellate court, we should not substitute our own findings of fact for those of the commission. The record presents facts substantiating the commission’s findings. Potter’s case, however, was weak, in my opinion, and the commission could have found otherwise.
Appellant was in a difficult situation, and drastic steps were required to re-create *877conditions under which the club could prosper. The owners of the club were concerned that, unless changes were made, the club could not continue to operate profitably. At oral argument, counsel for appellant stated that, in its effort to save the club, heterosexuals would not have been treated any differently if the manager were under the impression that improper heterosexual contact was occurring or about to occur. Appellant felt forced to take overall strong action to improve the reputation of the club or it would face closing. Indeed, even with these efforts, the club closed shortly after the incident that gave rise to this litigation. It almost appears that there was more to this case than the record indicates, but we are left to conjecture as to what those factors might have been.
While the applicable standard of review requires me to concur in the majority opinion, I am left with the uncomfortable feeling that justice may not have been done in this case.