Wine & Spirits Retailers, Inc. v. Rhode Island

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• observing that “[t]he requirement that an alleged injury be fairly traceable to the defendant’s action does not mean that the defendant’s action must be the final link in the chain of events leading up to the alleged harm
• viewing “provision of advertising services, including designing advertisements, arranging for their placement in various media, and licensing the common use of trade names” as conduct rather than speech
• making a similar point with respect to W & S’s provision of business advice
• “The First Amendment’s core concern is with the free transmission of a message or idea from speaker to listener, not with the speaker’s ability to turn a profit.”
• “[J]udgment calls and issues that demand the balancing of conflicting factors are reviewed deferentially.”
• “The [Supreme] Court has tended to view the right of association as dependent on underlying individual rights of expression; there is no right of association in the abstract.” (internal quotation marks and alteration omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).