Raines law hotel. State statutes allowed that any business was considered a hotel if it had 10 rooms for lodging and served sandwiches with its liquor. Saloons quickly found a loophole by adding small furnished bedrooms and applying for a hotel license. Dozens of "Raines law hotels," often located directly above saloons, opened. As a contemporary source put it, "This offered a premium on the transformation of saloons into hotels with bedrooms and led to unlooked-for evils" (an increase in prostitution), as the rooms in many "Raines law hotels" were used mostly by prostitutes and unmarried couples. (In some cases these rooms
Judiciary of New York (state) courts whose appeals lie to it. Published trial court decisions are persuasive authority for all other courts in the state. The "Civil Practice Law and Rules" (CPLR) governs legal procedure such as jurisdiction, venue, and pleadings, as well certain areas of substantive law such as the statute of limitations and joint and several liability. The Judiciary of New York is a unified state court system that functions under the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals who is the "" Chief Judge of New York. The Chief Judge supervises the seven-judge Court of Appeals and is chair of