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· 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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