United States Ninth Circuit

In an action by a Michigan winery claiming that certain provisions of Arizona's statutory scheme regulating the direct shipment of wine from wineries - whether located in-state or out-of-state - to Arizona consumers violated the dormant Commerce Clause, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where Arizona's statutory exceptions to its three-tier distribution system, which treated similarly situated in-state and out-of-state wineries the same and imposed no new impermissible burdens on out-of-state wineries, did not have the practical effect of favoring in-state economic interests over out-of-state interests.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/13/2010
• Published 04/13/2010

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• United States Ninth Circuit

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