CASTLEWOOD INTERN. CORP. v. SIMON

No. 53146.

367 So.2d 613 (1979)

CASTLEWOOD INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, etc., Appellant, v. William SIMON et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied March 12, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tobias Simon, Jennifer Hurst and Theodore L. Tripp, Jr. of the Law Offices of Tobias Simon, Miami, for appellant.

J.B. Eskenazi, U.S. Atty. and Lloyd G. Bates, Asst. U.S. Atty., Miami, and Ronald E. Williams, Office of Chief Counsel, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Washington, D.C., for appellees.

Cynthia S. Tunnicliff of Spector & Tunnicliff, Tallahassee, for Distilled Spirits Wholesalers of Florida, Inc., amicus curiae.

Wilbur E. Brewton and J. Riley Davis of Taylor, Brion, Buker & Greene, Tallahassee, for Wine Industry of Florida, Inc., amicus curiae.


ENGLAND, Chief Justice.

This case comes to us by certification from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, asking for an interpretation of the financial restrictions imposed by Florida law on transactions between wholesalers and retailers of alcoholic beverages. Critical to our answer are the history of Florida's regulatory provisions on the subject and a comparison with comparable features of the federal regulatory scheme.

Pursuant to the authority reserved...

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