United States Fourth Circuit

In an antitrust case involving the sale of liquor over state lines, the district court should not rule on the applicability of the Twenty First Amendment without giving the parties an opportunity to address the issue.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/05/2000
• Decided 03/01/2001
• Published 03/01/2001

Judges

• Before LUTTIG and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges, and HILTON, Chief United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  William James Murphy, Murphy & Shaffer, Baltimore, MD, for Appellant. Steven Marshall Sullivan, Assistant Attorney General, Baltimore, MD, for Appellees. ON BRIEF:  Robert T. Shaffer, III, John J. Connolly, Murphy & Shaffer, Baltimore, MD, for Appellant.  J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, Meredyth Smith Andrus, Assistant Attorney General, Baltimore, MD, for Appellees.  William B. Schreiber, Alan Warshauer, Wormser, Kiely, Galef & Jacobs, L.L.P., New York, NY, for Amici Curiae.