Last spring, the Stadium Lounge case was Exhibit A for the Annapolis lawmakers who eventually ousted Gov. Larry Hogan’s appointees to the Baltimore Liquor Board:

The board’s then-chairman, Benjamin A. Neil, had gone to a judge and quietly reopened the lounge, just two months into a six-month suspension imposed by the previous commissioners.

Community leaders who have been complaining for years about the Waverly tavern were furious.

In July, the new Liquor Board led by Chairman Albert J. Matricciani, Jr. not only shut the establishment’s doors again, it did so with seeming finality.

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