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Supreme Court Ruling Gives Winemakers a Reason to Raise Glasses

By Tony Mauro
May 25, 2005

The U.S. Supreme Court gave a cork-popping victory to the wine industry last month, striking down state laws that barred consumers from receiving direct shipment of wines from out-of-state wineries.

“This is the best day for wine-lovers since the invention of the corkscrew,” says Clint Bolick, the strategic litigation counsel for the Institute for Justice, who argued before the court on behalf of Virginia winemaker Juanita Swedenburg. Swedenburg was barred from shipping her wines to New York customers because of that state's law ' similar to the laws of more than 20 other states ' that allows only in-state wineries to ship wines to New Yorkers. The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the New York law, while the Sixth Circuit struck down a similar Michigan law. The Supreme Court ruled in both cases under the title Granholm v. Heald.

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