WINE COUNTRY GIFT BASKETS. COM v. Steen

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• concluding that Texas could require its authorized retailers to sell from locations physically located in Texas
• noting that a Commerce Clause challenge to a Texas law barring out-of-state wine retailers from making direct deliveries to Texas consumers “almost exclusively concern[ed] questions of law”
• viewing “local deliveries as a constitutionally benign incident of an acceptable three-tier system”
• “[D]iscrimination that would be questionable, then, is that which is not inherent in the three-tier system itself.”
• substitute 16 Case: 14-51343 Document: 00513475700 Page: 17 Date Filed: 04/21/2016 No. 14-51343 opinion on petition for rehearing
• upholding a similar statute on this ground

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