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Monday, April 04, 2011

Law - "Wholesale Robbery in Liquor Sales"

An op-ed in the NY Times from April 3rd, written by David White, begins:

IMAGINE if Texas lawmakers, in a bid to protect mom-and-pop bookstores, barred Amazon.com from shipping into the state. Or if Massachusetts legislators, worried about Boston’s shoe boutiques, prohibited residents from ordering from Zappos.com.

Such moves would infuriate consumers. They might also breach the Constitution’s commerce clause, which limits states from erecting trade barriers against one another. But wine consumers, producers and retailers face such restrictions daily.

Here is a long list of earlier ILB entries on wine shipping.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on April 4, 2011 12:04 PM
Posted to General Law Related