Board of Liquor License Commissioners for Baltimore City v. Fells Point Cafe, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the zoning board could place restrictions on the issuance of a license with the consent of the licensees, and that enforcement of the consensual restrictions were within the jurisdiction of the board
• concluding that the liquor board’s power to grant or transfer a liquor license did not include the power to impose restrictions on the license, because liquor boards do not have broad implied powers under the comprehensive legislative scheme governing such boards
• concluding that the liquor board’s power to grant or transfer a liquor license did not include the power to impose restrictions on the license, because liquor boards do not have broad implied powers under the comprehensive legislative scheme governing such boards
• concluding that the liquor board’s power to grant or transfer a liquor license did not include the power to impose restrictions on the license, because liquor boards do not have broad implied powers under the comprehensive legislative scheme governing such boards
• the purported judgment “must be intended by the court as an unqualified, final disposition of the matter in controversy”
• trial court’s oral ruling and subsequent written and signed order constituted the final judgment despite the fact that another Memorandum Decision and Order followed that restated his conclusions; thus, the appeal was not premature

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