· 3/3/1980
California Retail Liquor Dealers Assn. v. Midcal Aluminum, Inc.
Citations
- 445 U.S. 97
- 100 S. Ct. 937
- 63 L. Ed. 2d 233
- 1980 U.S. LEXIS 86
How courts have described this case
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- deciding that California lacked the power to sanction horizontal price fixing for wine sold within its borders
- deciding that California lacked the power to sanction horizontal price fixing for wine sold within its borders
- holding that where the statute expressly required members of the wine industry to set price schedules for wine sales it amounted to a per se Sherman Act violation
- holding that where the statute expressly required members of the wine industry to set price schedules for wine sales it amounted to a per se Sherman Act violation
- holding that State’s interest in promoting temperance through statute was not substantial and was therefore clearly outweighed by the important federal objectives of the Sherman Act
- holding that the challenged practice violated the Sherman Act but continuing to examine it under Parker
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Judges: Powell, Beennan, Brennan
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