HASKELL'S INC. v. SOPSIC

No. 51397.

306 N.W.2d 555 (1981)

HASKELL'S INC., et al, Appellants, v. John SOPSIC, Minnesota Commissioner of Public Safety, and the State of Minnesota, et al, Respondents, and Minnesota Beer Wholesalers Association, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

June 12, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Faegre & Benson, Jerry W. Snider and Brian B. O'Neill, Minneapolis, for appellants.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Richard Allyn, Sol. Gen. and James M. Campbell, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for Sopsic and State of Minnesota.

Sachs, Latz, Kirshbaum & Amundson and Robert Latz, Minneapolis, for Minnesota Beer Wholesalers Assn.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.


OTIS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered by the Ramsey County District Court in favor of the defendants in an action for declaratory judgment in which the plaintiffs seek first, to have the Cash Beer Law, Minn.Stat. § 340.405 (1980)1 declared unconstitutional; second, to enjoin enforcement of that law; and third, to recover damages. We affirm.

The plaintiffs are privately-owned retail intoxicating liquor vendors...

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