United States Fifth Circuit

Portions of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code that regulate the sale and importation of wine by citizens of the State of Texas from out-of-state vintners violates the Commerce Clause by economically discriminating against out-of-state wineries in favor of its own in-state wineries.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/26/2003
• Published 06/26/2003

Judges

• WIENER, Circuit Judge:, Before WIENER and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges, and LITTLE , District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Philip Andrew Lionberger, Deputy Sol. Gen., W. Reed Lockhoof, Asst. Atty. Gen., Rance Lamar Craft (argued), Austin, TX, for Bailey., Louis R. Cohen, Todd Cornelius Zubler, C. Boyden Gray, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Mitchell Craig Wolf, Washington, DC, for Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America, Inc., National Ass'n of Beverage Importers, American Beverage Licensees, National Beer Wholesalers Ass'n, Coalition of Licensed Beverage Ass'ns and Presidents' Forum of the Beverage Alcohol Industry, Amici Curiae., James M. Goldberg, Goldberg & Associates, Washington, DC, for National Alcohol Beverage Control Ass'n Inc. and National Conference of State Liquor Administrators, Amici Curiae., Steven M. Simpson, Clint Russell Bolick, William H. Mellor, Institute for Justice, Washington, DC, for Swedenburg, Swedenburg Winery, Lucas and Lucas Winery, Amici Curiae., Tracy Sue Carlin, Mills & Carlin, Jackson, FL, Kevin Murray Fong, Pillsbury Winthrop, San Francisco, CA, Tracy K. Genesen, Hyde, Miller, Owen & Trost, Sacramento, CA, for Family Winemakers of California and Coalition for Free Trade, Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark C. Harwell (argued), Cotham, Harwell & Evans, Houston, TX, Sterling W. Steves, Fort Worth, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.