There has been some recent attention to the constitutionality of
state laws that prohibit the direct shipment of alcoholic beverages.
On one side are Kenneth Starr and Clint Bolick, defending the interests
of the winery-backed "Coalition for Free Trade" and on the other
side are Robert Bork
I
believe that a recent Sixth Circuit case struck down a discriminatory direct
shipment law; a ban on direct shipment might be ok, but not a discriminatory
law, which allows direct shipment by instaters but not out of staters I seem
to recall that that was the rationale... JFB
