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NORMAN WILLIAMS CO. v. RICE

Docket No. 19089.

108 Cal.App.3d 348 (1980)

166 Cal. Rptr. 563

NORMAN WILLIAMS COMPANY et al., Petitioners, v. BAXTER RICE, as Director, etc., Respondent; WINE & SPIRITS WHOLESALERS OF CALIFORNIA et al., Interveners.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

July 17, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Feldman, Waldman & Kline, Leland R. Selna, Jr., Max Lieberman, George G. Weickhardt and Thomas W. Martin for Petitioners.

Harry M. Snyder and Luana L. Martilla as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, and George J. Roth, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Noble K. Gregory, Parker A. Maddux, Gary W. Jackson, Richman & Garrett, Lionel Richman, Ivan J. Potts, Michael J. Shelley and James M.H. Ball as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondent.

Ball, Hunt, Hart, Brown & Baerwitz, Joseph A. Ball, Anthony Murray, Michael J. Maloney, James Polish, Russell Swartz, William T. Chidlaw, Wyman, Bautzer, Rothman, Kuchel & Silbert, Frank Rothman, Christina A. Snyder and George Miron for Interveners.

Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, Stephen V. Bomse, White & Case, Macdonald Flinn, Edna R. Susman, Douglas W. Metz and Abraham Tunick as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondent and Interveners.

OPINION

REYNOSO, J.

In this proceeding in writ of mandate we are called upon to determine the validity of that portion of Business and Professions Code section 23672 (as amended by Assem. Bill No. 499, Stats. 1979, ch. 280, § 1; hereinafter designation statute), which provides that a licensed importer shall not purchase or accept delivery of any brand of distilled spirits unless...

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