STATE v. LUDLOW SUPERMARKETS, INC.

No. 299-81.

448 A.2d 791 (1982)

STATE of Vermont v. LUDLOW SUPERMARKETS, INC., d/b/a Clark's Bennington IGA.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

May 28, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Easton, Jr., Atty. Gen., and Edwin L. Hobson, Jr., and Zander B. Rubin, Asst. Attys. Gen., Montpelier, for plaintiff.

Fink & Birmingham, P. C., Ludlow, for defendant.

Before BARNEY, C. J., HILL and UNDERWOOD, JJ., and SHANGRAW, C. J., and DALEY, J. (Ret.), Specially Assigned.


BARNEY, Chief Justice.

This opinion deals with the validity of the so-called Sunday closing law, 13 V.S.A. §§ 3351-3358, as tested against the Constitutions of the United States and of Vermont. The law is set out in its entirety in an appendix to this opinion.

The issue before the Court is whether the statutory prohibition, quoted below, passes constitutional muster as an enforceable criminal enactment, or indeed whether it would do so even as a...

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