PEERLESS WHOLESALE LIQ., INC. v. ILL. LIQUOR CONTROL COM'N

No. 1-96-4188.

694 N.E.2d 620 (1998)

296 Ill. App.3d 230

230 Ill.Dec. 651

PEERLESS WHOLESALE LIQUORS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ILLINOIS LIQUOR CONTROL COMMISSION and Associated Beer Distributors of Illinois, Defendants-Appellees (NWS, Inc., Judge & Dolph, Ltd. and Romano Brothers Beverage Co., Intervenors-Appellees).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Third Division.

April 29, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. Franco Laterza and Lucila O. Espedido, Laterza & Heilizer, Chicago, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, and Barbara A. Preiner, Solicitor General, Chicago (John R. Stanton, Anne T. Treonis, Special Assistant Attorneys General, and Karen J. Dimond, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellee Liquor Control Commission.

Herman G. Bodewes and Stephan J. Roth, Giffin, Winning, Cohen & Bodewes, P.C., Springfield, for Defendant-Appellee Associated Beer Distributors.

Seigel, Moses & Schoenstadt, Chicago, for Intervenors-Appellees.


Justice CAHILL delivered the opinion of the court:

Section 6-9 of the Illinois Liquor Control Act of 1934 (235 ILCS 5/6-9 (West 1996)) (the Act) is not an easy statute to wander through without getting lost. It establishes registration requirements and a scheme for the geographical restriction of wholesale liquor sales in Illinois, pauses to carve out an exception on those restrictions for certain wholesalers who were in...

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