Alcohol price regulation ruling [4th Circuit] News
Alcohol price regulation ruling [4th Circuit]

TFWS, Inc. v. Franchot, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, July 15, 2009 [holding that Maryland alcohol price regulations violate federal antitrust laws, thus upholding their 2001 ruling that state pricing schemes for liquor and wine wholesalers restrain trade and constitute horizontal price fixing under the Sherman Antitrust Act].

Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on the Sherman Act.

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