SIESTA VILLAGE MARKET LLC, doing business as Siesta Market; Ken Travis; Ken Gallinger; Maureen Gallinger; Dr. Robert Brockie, Plaintiffs-Cross-Appellees,
v.
John T. STEEN, Jr., Commissioner of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission; Gail Madden, Commissioner of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission; Jose Cuevas, Jr., Commissioner of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, Defendants-Cross-Appellants.
Wine Country Gift Baskets.com; K&L Wine Merchants; Beverages & More, Inc.; David L. Tapp; Ronald L. Parrish; Jeffrey R. Davis, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees,
v.
Allen Steen, in his official capacity as administrator of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant,
Glazers Wholesale Drug Company, Inc.; Republic Beverage Company, Intervenor Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.
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January 26, 2010.
January 26, 2010.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
James F. Basile, Kirkland & Ellis, L.L.P., San Francisco, CA, Susan Elisabeth Engel, Elizabeth Marie Locke, Soraya Prince Freed Rudofsky, Kirkland & Ellis, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Kenneth Winston Starr (argued), Kirkland & Ellis, L.L.P., Los Angeles, CA, Sterling W. Steves, Fort Worth, TX, Mark C. Harwell, Cothan, Harwell & Evans, Houston, TX, Henry W. Simon, Jr., Barlow, Garsek & Simon, L.L.P., Fort Worth, TX, for Wine Country Gift Baskets.com, K&L Wine Merchants, Beverages & More, Inc., Tapp, Parrish and Davis.
Dee J. Kelly, Sr. (argued), Marianne Marsh Auld, David E. Keltner, Marshall M. Searcy, Jr., William Nolan Warren, Kelly, Hart & Hallman, L.L.P., Fort Worth, TX, for Glazers Wholesale Drug Co., Inc. and Republic Beverage Co.
James A. Tanford, Indiana University Sch. of Law, Bloomington, IN, William M. Boyd, Boyd Veigel, McKinney, TX, Robert D. Epstein, Epstein, Cohen, Donahoe & Mendes, Indianapolis, IN, for Siesta Village Market LLC, Travis, Ken and Maureen Gallinger and Brockie.
James C. Ho, Sol. (argued), Philip Andrew Lionberger, Deputy Sol. Gen., James Carlton Todd, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, TX, for John and Allen Steen, Madden and Cuevas.
Derek L. Shaffer, Charles Justin Cooper, Cooper & Kirk, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Specialty Wine Retailers Ass'n.
Kent Martin Shimeall, Columbus, OH, for Ohio and 17 other states, Amici Curiae.
David Bruce Young, McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, L.L.P., Austin, TX, for Wholesale Beer Distributors of Texas, Amicus Curiae.
Carter Glasgow Phillips, Sidley Austin, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America, Inc., Nat. Beer Wholesalers Ass'n and Sazerac Co.
Before JOLLY, PRADO and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
LESLIE H. SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judge:
This case primarily concerns a Texas law that allows alcohol retailers to ship to the door of their local consumers. Out-of-Texas wine retailers claim that the dormant Commerce Clause requires they be given a supposedly reciprocal right to make direct shipments to any Texas consumer. The district court partly accepted their argument. We hold that the statutes do not run afoul of the dormant Commerce
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