We’ve become used to the routine — violence breaks out at/near District bar; Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) publicly demands that bar’s liquor license be pulled in the name of public safety/the children/puppy dogs; bar goes under. So reliable has Ward 1’s representative on the D.C. Council become in his ability to appear before the cameras after a violent incident at a local bar that the City Paper has even coined a term for it — Grahamstanding.

Well, new U Street hotspot Marvin may soon get the Grahamstanding of a lifetime. According to the Examiner, Graham’s trusted chief of staff, Ted Loza, had a run-in with a bouncer at the club in late March, leaving him with a nasty black eye. And though Marvin, ummm, bounced the offending bouncer, Loza may still take action. Writes the Examiner:

Loza’s filing also said he plans to take “legal action against the establishment and its owners for fostering this type of unprofessional behavior” (among its owners are Eric Hilton, part of the famous D.C.-based DJ duo Thievery Corporation), and possibly bring up whether Marvin’s liquor license should be suspended.

We imagine that Loza is smart enough not to use a little Saturday-night run-in as an excuse to let his boss loose on the place. But if he really did make the threat — we’re not sure he did; note that it’s the Examiner’s words there, not Loza’s — the folks at Marvin may as well start hoping that virgin martinis and bottles of Kaliber are big sellers.