United States Fourth Circuit

Whether certain Maryland regulations that regulate the wholesale pricing of liquor and wine are effective in promoting temperance, under the Twenty-first Amendment, involves disputed factual issues that cannot be resolved on summary judgment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/31/2003
• Published 03/31/2003

Judges

• Before LUTTIG, MICHAEL, and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  William James Murphy, Murphy & Shaffer, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellant.  Steven Marshall Sullivan, Assistant Attorney General, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees. ON BRIEF:  John J. Connolly, Murphy & Shaffer, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellant.  J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, Andrew H. Baida, Solicitor General, Meredyth Smith Andrus, Assistant Attorney General, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees.