GRANHOLM v. HEALD

No. 03-1116.

544 U.S. 460 (2005)

GRANHOLM, GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN, ET AL. v. HEALD ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 16, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clint Bolick argued the cause for petitioners in No. 03-1274. With him on the briefs were William H. Mellor, Steven M. Simpson, and Lance J. Gotko. Kathleen M. Sullivan argued the cause for respondents in Nos. 03-1116 and 03-1120. With her on the brief were James A. Tanford, Robert D. Epstein, and Kenneth W. Starr.

Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General of Michigan, argued the cause for petitioners in Nos. 03-1116 and 03-1120. With him on the briefs in No. 03-1116 were Michael A. Cox, Attorney General, and Donald S. McGehee, Assistant Attorney General. Anthony S. Kogut, John A. Yeager, Curtis R. Hadley, Louis R. Cohen, C. Boyden Gray, and Todd Zubler filed a brief for petitioner in No. 03-1120. Caitlin J. Halligan, Solicitor General of New York, argued the cause for respondents in No. 03-1274. With her on the brief for the state respondents were Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, Daniel Smirlock, Deputy Solicitor General, and Gregory Klass and Shaifali Puri, Assistant Solicitors General.

Miguel A. Estrada, Mark A. Perry, Howard Graff, Victoria A. Kummer, Robert M. Heller, J. Warren Mangan, and Alan J. Gardner filed a brief for the private respondents.

KENNEDY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which SCALIA, SOUTER, GINSBURG, and BREYER, JJ., joined. STEVENS, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which O'CONNOR, J., joined, p. 493. THOMAS, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which REHNQUIST, C. J., and STEVENS and O'CONNOR, JJ., joined, p. 497.


JUSTICE KENNEDY delivered the opinion of the Court.

These consolidated cases present challenges to state laws regulating the sale of wine from out-of-state wineries to consumers in Michigan and New York. The details and mechanics of the two regulatory schemes differ, but the object and effect of the laws are the same: to allow in-state wineries to sell wine directly to consumers...

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