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Liquor Price Affirmation Statutes And The Dormant Commerce Clause, Ward A. Greenberg
Liquor Price Affirmation Statutes And The Dormant Commerce Clause, Ward A. Greenberg
Michigan Law Review
Part I of this Note examines the current state of the law in the liquor affirmation area. Part II argues that the twenty-first amendment may not be invoked to justify the extraterritorial impact of these statutes. The amendment does not preempt the commerce clause in the liquor area. While it gives the states free rein over liquor internally, it provides no basis for any extraterritorial projection of liquor price regulation. Part III considers the commerce clause analysis of Brown-Forman and argues that any interstate effects of these statutes will cause them to violate the commerce clause. This section argues that …