SERLIN WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, INC. v. HEALY

Civ. Nos. B-80-297, B-80-280.

512 F.Supp. 936 (1981)

SERLIN WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, INC. (Derby), Michael Kisner, Permittee; Serlin Wine and Spirit Merchants, Inc. (State Street, Bridgeport), Miguel Torres, Permittee; Wine Merchants Ltd. (Orange), Peter Kish, Permittee; Wine Merchants Ltd. (Broad Street, Bridgeport), Alan Rapkin, Permittee; Serlin Corporation (Fairfield), Kenneth Anton, Permittee; Serlin Corporation (Guilford), Charles Weber, Permittee; A & P Package Store, David O'Brien, Sr., Permittee; Mountain Top Liquors, Inc., Clifford Atkin, Permittee; Old Mystic Wine Cellar, Charles P. Hamm, Permittee; Plaintiffs, v. John F. HEALY, Louis A. Sidoli, David L. Snyder, Charles Kasmer, in their capacity as members or employees of the State of Connecticut and the Division of Liquor Control, Department of Business Regulation, Defendants. John T. MORGAN, Stuart J. Filler, Charles A. Heckman, and David S. King, Plaintiffs, v. DIVISION OF LIQUOR CONTROL, DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS REGULATION, STATE OF CONNECTICUT, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Connecticut.

April 15, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan Neigher, Leslie Byelas, Byelas & Neigher, Westport, Conn., Steven G. Mednick, New Haven, Conn., for plaintiffs.

Carl R. Ajello, Atty. Gen., Richard M. Sheridan, Robert F. Vacchelli, Robert M. Langer, John R. Lacey, Asst. Attys. Gen., Hartford, Conn., for defendants.

James A. Trowbridge, Bridgeport, Conn., for John Morgan.

Ralph J. Savarese, Ray A. Jacobsen, Jr., John C. Peirce, Howrey & Simon, Washington, D. C., J. Daniel Sagarin, Harrigan, Hurwitz, Sagarin & Rutkin, P. C., Milford, Conn., for amicus curiae Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, Inc., John McCarren, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

James M. Mannion, Bethel, Conn., for Conn. Beer Wholesalers.

Daniel E. Brennan, Sr., James J. A. Daly, Bridgeport, Conn., for Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of Conn., Inc.

Richard Goodman, Trowbridge, Goodman & Rosenthal, Hartford, Conn., for Conn. Pkg. Store.


DALY, District Judge.

RULING ON CROSS MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

In these consolidated cases1 plaintiffs seek to have Connecticut's Liquor Control Act, Conn.Gen.Stat.Ann. § 30-1 et seq., as amended, declared unconstitutional, claiming it to be in violation of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.2 Specifically, plaintiffs claim that Connecticut's statutorily mandated pricing...

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