Hearings will continue Wednesday before Judge Jeffrey Atherton in Chancery Court inside the Hamilton County Courthouse regarding six violations involving the Blue Light nightclub on Station Street.
The violations, ranging from a staff member being intoxicated while on duty to selling alcohol off premises to operating a disorderly place and failing to report to police a disorder, all allegedly took place between Sept. 5 and Oct. 31. The bar opened the final week of August.
The first day of hearings started just after 9:30 a.m. Tuesday and ended just before 6:30 p.m.
While not the subject of Tuesday’s proceedings, the hearings convened a week after a June 19 shooting in the heart of the city’s tourism district left two women with non-life-threatening injuries.
The venue is appealing the autumn violations and the proposed revocation of the Blue Light’s beer permit, handed down by the Chattanooga Beer & Wrecker Board on Nov. 4 and Nov. 18. Atherton opened the hearing by admonishing members of the media not to livestream any of the hearings or make online reports.