United States Seventh Circuit

In a commerce-clause challenge to Indiana's regulations on direct wine shipments, an injunction against enforcement of the contested provisions is affirmed in part and reversed in part where: 1) a wholesale clause forbidding any winery that acts as a wholesaler in any state from making direct shipments to Indiana consumers overly burdened interstate commerce while not providing sufficient local benefit; but 2) a face-to-face clause requiring would-be direct-wine buyers to visit a winery once in order to provide proof of age did not create such a burden.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/22/2008
• Decided 08/07/2008
• Published 08/07/2008

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and BAUER and POSNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Karl L. Mulvaney, Kent D. Zepick, Scott R. Leisz, Bingham McHale, Indianapolis, IN, Carter Phillips, Jacqueline G. Cooper, Sidley Austin, Craig Wolf, Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America, Inc., Washington, DC, Anne Milgram, Lisa Hibner Tavani, Office of The Attorney General, Trenton, NJ, Troy King, Office of the Attorney General, Montgomery, AL, Dustin McDaniel, Office of the Attorney General, Little Rock, AR, Joseph R. Biden, III, Office of the Attorney General, Wilmington, DE, Thurbert E, Baker, Office of the Attorney General, Atlanta, GA, Lawrence Wasden, Office of the Attorney General, Boise, ID, Gregory D. Stumbo, Office of the Attorney General, Frankfort, KY, G. Steven Rowe, Office of the Attorney General, August, ME, Martha Coakley, Attorney General of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, Michael A. Cox, Office of the Attorney General, Lansing, MI, Jim Hood, Office of the Attorney General, Department of Justice, Jackson, MS, Kelly A. Ayotte, Office of New Hampshire Attorney General, Concord, NH, Gary K. King, Office of the Attorney General, Santa Fe, NM, Wayne Stenehjem, Office of the Attorney General, Bismarck, ND, Marc Dann, Office of Ohio Attorney General, Columbus, OH, Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., Office of the Attorney General, Harrisburg, PA, Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Office of the Attorney General, Nashville, TN, Greg Abbott, Office of the Attorney General, General Counsel Division, Austin, TX, Mark L. Shurtleff, Office of the Attorney General, Salt Lake City, UT, Robert M. McKenna, Office of Washington Attorney General, Olympia, WA, Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., Office of the Attorney General, Charleston, WV, Roberto J. Sanchez-Ramos, Department of Justice, San Juan, PR, R. Christopher Heck, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL, Richard R. Hoffstetter, Nashville, IN, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• James A. Tanford (argued), Indiana University, School of Law, Bloomington, IN, Robert D. Epstein, Epstein Cohen Donahue & Mendes, Indianapolis, IN, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Thomas M. Fisher (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendant-Appellant., Fred R. Biesecker (argued), Ice Miller, Indianapolis, IN, for Intervening Defendant-Appellant in No. 07-3338.