Supreme Court OKs Interstate Wine Retailing

Foxnews ^ | May 16, 2005 | AP

[Last Dakotan]

Great news. The liquor stores in my state have to buy from a very limited number of state approved wholesalers. Has made for high prices, limited selection, and a few guaranteed millionaires.

[rintense]

WOOOOO HOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Bring on the Sol Beer to Michigan!!! I had to drive to Chicago to buy the damn stuff!

[No Blue States]

This will be good for the growing Texas wineries.

[mainepatsfan]

Did the have to cite foreign law for this decision?

[Vicomte13]

I wonder what the state's righters and federalists will have to say about all of this.

[tom paine 2]

And bad for the Texas wholesalers (Schadenfreude)

[snowsislander]

There's also another thread on this at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1404098/posts

[mvpel]

This is promising news for the Second Amendment - at least five justices understand that "regulate" means "to make regular."

[Last Dakotan]

You have to view all SCOTUS decisions through a filter that asks; Is this going to result in more regulation or less?

[Paul C. Jesup]

I wonder what the state's righters and federalists will have to say about all of this.

Well this ruling is constitutional under the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution. And the ruling is capitialistic under free market concepts, so I have not problems with the ruling.

[Minn]

Kennedy was joined in his opinion by Justices Antonin Scalia, David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer.

Wow! How strange. Scalia teams up with the bad guys to strike a blow for liberty, while Stevens joins the (normally) good guys to promote the nanny state.

[RobRoy]

Looks like Costco is going to win their lawsuit in Washington state. Now maybe Two Buck Chuck really will be two bucks, and not three!

[Rutles4Ever]

Great news for Napa Valley.

[martin_fierro]

PA State Store Ping, 'n'at.

[Southack]

This ruling ends one commerical distribution advantage that French wines had over local Alabama and Texas and California and Washington/Oregon wines...now local American wineries can ship their wines anywhere in the U.S.

[BulletBobCo]

[Van Jenerette]

...hmmm...free pour related?

[MsJefferson]

That's awesome. Now, if we can just get drugs from Canada.

Free market rules!!!

[cvq3842]

Funny!

[Utah Binger]

I'll believe it when I see it here in Utah. Those Utah boys are making way too much money in the state liquor stores to allow this to happen.

They even stop cars coming in from Arizona and other places to see if the bottles have their silly little green label on them.