Glo Sues City of Ferndale Alleging False Reports and Financial Loss
(compiled, April 6, 2015)
The owners of Glo Night Club are suing the City of Ferndale in Oakland Circuit Court alleging that their license was unjustly removed after false reports of crime and noise made by the police at a public hearing and to the media. They are seeking financial damages and to have their license reinstated.
A report in The Detroit News explains “The lawsuit said Wilson and Collins made statements to the news media regarding the stabbing and a man being hit over the head by a bottle. Those statements and public hearing and council vote, led to the club’s liquor license being suspended on request of the city, which also alleged the club had been the source of noise and trash 
complaints, parking issues and traffic backups.
The lawsuit said the club never received any tickets or citations for ordinance violations.”
On March 27 the club’s temporary liquor license was revoked and the club closed its doors.
Glo also claims that reports of stabbings on March 17 were unsubstantiated, and that there was financial harm in the City using the statements of police to have their license suspended.
Lt. William Wilson told The Detroit News that he’d not yet been served with the lawsuit and could not yet comment on it, but that “We don’t make statements recklessly and there is plenty of evidence that (fight) occurred.”
At a hearing on March 27, the Michigan Liquor Control Commission denied Glo’s application for a transfer of liquor license from the previous owner. The denial was based on a series of bounced checks and an unpaid fee. The denial letter states there is an unpaid fee of $525 for inspection and licensing. The denial also sites previous quality of management issues, including “three (3) times for violating R 436.1059 since being issued a conditional license at this location for writing non-sufficient funds checks on December 12, 2014 for $2,259.24, December 31, 2014 for $6,350.76, and January 5, 2015 for $3,195.39.”
The denial also states that problems at Glo “have resulted in several police reports, tickets and police log entries, including recent incidents that occurred on March 17, 2015 involving fights where two people were cut with knives and one person was injured from being hit on the head with a bottle.”
The suit is assigned to Judge Rudy Nichols.
For more check out the Detroit News article at http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2015/04/06/ferndale-glo-nightclub-sues-reopen/25379777/.
Previous stories:
https://oaklandcounty115.com/2015/03/28/glo-goes-quiet-as-state-suspends-license-pending-hearing-in-april/
https://oaklandcounty115.com/2015/03/23/stabbings-and-nuisance-activity-could-cost-glo-nightclub-liquor-license/
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