Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Assn. v. Thomas
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Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Thomas | |
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Argued January 16, 2019 Decided June 26, 2019 | |
Full case name | Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Russell F. Thomas, Executive Director of the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission, et al. |
Docket no. | 18-96 |
Citations | 587 U.S. ___ (more) 139 S. Ct. 2449; 204 L. Ed. 2d 801 |
Case history | |
Prior | Partial summary judgment granted, Byrd v. Tenn. Wine & Spirits Retailers Ass'n, 259 F. Supp. 3d 785 (M.D. Tenn. 2017); affirmed, Byrd v. Tenn. Wine & Spirits Retailers Ass'n, 883 F. Supp. 3d 608 (6th Cir. 2018) |
Holding | |
Tennessee's 2-year durational-residency requirement applicable to retail liquor store license applicants violates the Commerce Clause and is not saved by the Twenty-first Amendment | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Alito, joined by Roberts, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Kavanaugh |
Dissent | Gorsuch, joined by Thomas |
Laws applied | |
U.S. Const. art. I, § 8, cl. 3 |
Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Thomas, No. 18-96, 587 U.S. ___ (2019), was a United States Supreme Court case which held that Tennessee's 2-year durational-residency requirement applicable to retail liquor store license applicants violated the Commerce Clause and was not saved by the Twenty-first Amendment.[1]
References
- ^ Sibilla, Nick (27 June 2019). "Supreme Court Strikes Down Tennessee Liquor License That "Blatantly Favors" In-State Businesses". Forbes.
External links
- Text of Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Thomas, No. 18-96, 587 U.S. ___ (2019) is available from: Cornell Google Scholar Justia Oyez (oral argument audio) Supreme Court (slip opinion)
- Case page at SCOTUSblog