SUPERIOR BEVERAGES v. ALCOHOLIC BEV. CONT.

No. 88-658.

567 A.2d 1319 (1989)

SUPERIOR BEVERAGES, INC., Petitioner, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL BOARD, Respondent.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 28, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Inez Smith Reid, Washington, D.C., for petitioner.

Martin B. White, Corp. Counsel, Chevy Chase, Md., with whom Frederick D. Cooke, Jr., Corp. Counsel at the time the brief was filed, Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corp. Counsel, and Lutz Alexander Prager, Asst. Deputy Corp. Counsel, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for respondent.

John R. Risher, Jr., Washington, D.C., filed a brief for amicus curiae, Chevy Chase Wine and Liquors, et al.

Before ROGERS, Chief Judge, and SCHWELB and FARRELL, Associate Judges.


SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

This is a case in which an administrative agency has treated regulations promulgated by the Council of the District of Columbia to address one problem as if they had also been intended to deal with an entirely different one. Specifically, the District of Columbia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board (the Board) has construed regulations which severely restrict the terms of credit which wholesalers of alcoholic beverages may extend to retailers...

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