CONNECTICUT FINE WINE AND SPIRITS, LLC v. SEAGULL

Docket No. 17-2003-cv August Term, 2017.

916 F.3d 160 (2019)

CONNECTICUT FINE WINE AND SPIRITS, LLC, d/b/a, Total Wine & More, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Commissioner Michelle H. SEAGULL, Department of Consumer Protection, John Suchy, Director, Division of Liquor Control, Defendants-Appellees, Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of Connecticut, Inc., Connecticut Beer Wholesalers Association, Inc., Connecticut Restaurant Association, Connecticut Package Stores Association, Inc., Brescome Barton, Inc., Intervenors-Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: February 20, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Murphy ( John J. Connolly , Adam B. Abelson , on the brief) Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, Baltimore, Maryland; James T. Shearin , Edward B. Lefebvre , Pullman & Comley, LLC, New York, New York, for Plaintiff-Appellant Connecticut Fine Wine & Spirits, LLC.

Gary M. Becker , Assistant Attorney General ( Robert Deichert , Assistant Attorney General, on the brief), George Jepsen , Attorney General for the State of Connecticut for Defendants-Appellees Michelle H. Seagull, Commissioner, Department of Consumer Protection; John Suchy , Director, Division of Labor, Hartford, Connecticut.

Deborah Skakel ( Craig M. Flanders , on the brief) Blank Rome LLP, New York, New York; David S. Hardy , Damian K. Gunningsmith , Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP, New Haven, Connecticut; Robert M. Langer , Benjamin H. Diessel , Wiggin and Dana LLP, Hartford, Connecticut; Meredith G. Diette , Siegel, O'Connor, O'Donnell & Beck P.C., Hartford, Connecticut; Patrick A. Klingman , Klingman Law, LLC, Hartford, Connecticut, for Intervenors-Defendants-Appellees Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of Connecticut, Inc.; Connecticut Beer Wholesalers Association, Inc.; Connecticut Restaurant Association, Connecticut Package Stores Association, Inc. Jeffrey J. Mirman , John F. Droney , Hinckley, Allen & Snyder, LLP, Hartford, Connecticut, for Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee Brescome Barton, Inc.

Before: Pooler, Sack, Circuit Judges, and Engelmayer, District Judge.


Connecticut Fine Wine and Spirits, d/b/a Total Wine & More ("Total Wine") appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Janet C. Hall, District Judge) dismissing its complaint against the Connecticut Department of Consumer...

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