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...Harvard stood before the Rent Control Board, petitioning for the right to make a $2.5 million renovation at the Craigie Arms apartments on Mt. Auburn St. Just two blocks away at Grendel’s Den, Harvard Law School professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62 was cooking up a legal scheme to grant the restaurant owners the liquor license they had been denied...
...Tribe said he first became aware of the situation when a law student raised his hand in class and asked a pertinent question...
...said, ‘If government can’t delegate power to churches, then how come I can’t get a beer with my lunch at Grendel’s?’” Tribe recalled...
...Thus began Larkin v. Grendel’s Den, a case that Tribe took to the U.S. Supreme Court in October 1982, arguing that the law violated the Establishment Clause of the First Ammendment, which guarantees the separation of Church and State. In December, the Court agreed with Tribe and ruled the law unconstitutional...
...Since Grendel’s was the only restaurant in the Square affected by the law, Tribe pointed out that the court victory didn’t necessarily turn on dozens of beer taps, although he insisted that it was nonetheless an important event...