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I don't really know anything about hood cleaning, but it does seem a lot of the vents come out of the sides of the buildings here. The only reason I notice this is that about seven or eight years ago Daryl Mirza came through Little Rock and had lunch with us. He commented about the vents coming out of the sides of the buildings. I wish the article had a photo with it.
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Order gives lawyer breath of fresh air
BY JOHN LYNCH ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
A Little Rock lawyer said he’s no fan of the loud noises and greasy smells coming from a neighboring restaurant and won a judge’s order Tuesday that appears to have closed the downtown eatery temporarily.
Keith Hall, a former Pulaski County deputy prosecuting attorney, said the kitchen exhaust fan at J’s Place made too much noise and pumped the smell of fried food into his office at the Moore Building, Center and Sixth streets. The noise and smell sometimes has forced him out of his office.
"The problem was very, very serious," Hall said Tuesday. "All that foul air, they were shooting right at me. I was a sitting duck."
The restaurant, also a building tenant, was not open Tuesday, the day after Hall filed suit against it and owner Lee Johnson, asking a circuit judge to prohibit J’s Place from using the fan. Special Circuit Judge David Sachar’s temporary restraining order forbids the restaurant from using the fan until "it is no longer a nuisance and is otherwise properly installed."
Johnson didn’t return a phone message Tuesday, and no one was at J’s Place, the former downtown location of the N.Y. Bagel Cafe, at noon.
The fan "pumps the restaurant’s discarded and exhausted noxious vapors, greasy fumes, offensive odors and other unwholesome air directly into plaintiff’s air-conditioner intake and window, thereby filling plaintiff’s entire office with the restaurant’s refused air," Hall complained in court filings.
It’s not just bad smells that had Hall, a lawyer for 16 years, fuming.
"Plaintiff’s office daily is being coated with grease pulled directly from the defendant’s kitchen, fouling his equipment, furnishings, fixtures and files," according to the three-page lawsuit, which is supplemented with five photos of the fan and his office. "When engaged, [the fan] keeps up such a racket that plaintiff is unable to communicate with his clients in person or by telephone. Defendant’s conduct runs the plaintiff out of his office."
He also argued that the fan violates section 308-5 of the state Mechanical Code, which requires a commercial cooking exhaust fan to be at least 10 feet from any nearby window or vent. He said that the J’s Place fan is eight feet from his air conditioner and about six feet from his office window. Hall also said he has complained to the city, which approved of the fan’s placement.
Hall said Tuesday that Johnson repeatedly has promised to do something about the fan, but efforts to fix it were not moving fast enough. He acknowledged that a lawsuit was "drastic," but said the constant smell and mess, combined with the racket, were hampering his practice.
"I’ve fought all of my life against being a greasy lawyer, and I wasn’t going to let a restaurant turn me into one," Hall said
Hall also has asked the judge to order the restaurant owner to pay his expenses and the cost of cleaning his office. No hearing date has been set, but Hall wants one as soon as possible, according to the suit.
This story was published Wednesday, August 03, 2005
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Order gives lawyer breath of fresh air
BY JOHN LYNCH ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
A Little Rock lawyer said he’s no fan of the loud noises and greasy smells coming from a neighboring restaurant and won a judge’s order Tuesday that appears to have closed the downtown eatery temporarily.
Keith Hall, a former Pulaski County deputy prosecuting attorney, said the kitchen exhaust fan at J’s Place made too much noise and pumped the smell of fried food into his office at the Moore Building, Center and Sixth streets. The noise and smell sometimes has forced him out of his office.
"The problem was very, very serious," Hall said Tuesday. "All that foul air, they were shooting right at me. I was a sitting duck."
The restaurant, also a building tenant, was not open Tuesday, the day after Hall filed suit against it and owner Lee Johnson, asking a circuit judge to prohibit J’s Place from using the fan. Special Circuit Judge David Sachar’s temporary restraining order forbids the restaurant from using the fan until "it is no longer a nuisance and is otherwise properly installed."
Johnson didn’t return a phone message Tuesday, and no one was at J’s Place, the former downtown location of the N.Y. Bagel Cafe, at noon.
The fan "pumps the restaurant’s discarded and exhausted noxious vapors, greasy fumes, offensive odors and other unwholesome air directly into plaintiff’s air-conditioner intake and window, thereby filling plaintiff’s entire office with the restaurant’s refused air," Hall complained in court filings.
It’s not just bad smells that had Hall, a lawyer for 16 years, fuming.
"Plaintiff’s office daily is being coated with grease pulled directly from the defendant’s kitchen, fouling his equipment, furnishings, fixtures and files," according to the three-page lawsuit, which is supplemented with five photos of the fan and his office. "When engaged, [the fan] keeps up such a racket that plaintiff is unable to communicate with his clients in person or by telephone. Defendant’s conduct runs the plaintiff out of his office."
He also argued that the fan violates section 308-5 of the state Mechanical Code, which requires a commercial cooking exhaust fan to be at least 10 feet from any nearby window or vent. He said that the J’s Place fan is eight feet from his air conditioner and about six feet from his office window. Hall also said he has complained to the city, which approved of the fan’s placement.
Hall said Tuesday that Johnson repeatedly has promised to do something about the fan, but efforts to fix it were not moving fast enough. He acknowledged that a lawsuit was "drastic," but said the constant smell and mess, combined with the racket, were hampering his practice.
"I’ve fought all of my life against being a greasy lawyer, and I wasn’t going to let a restaurant turn me into one," Hall said
Hall also has asked the judge to order the restaurant owner to pay his expenses and the cost of cleaning his office. No hearing date has been set, but Hall wants one as soon as possible, according to the suit.
This story was published Wednesday, August 03, 2005