Court Opinion

ID: 9732248
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 16:13:01.050975+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:23:15.698731
License: Public Domain

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.