MBDA v. PLCB

No. 515 C.D. 2008.

966 A.2d 1172 (2009)

MALT BEVERAGES DISTRIBUTORS ASSOCIATION and Beer Super, Inc., Petitioners v. PENNSYLVANIA LIQUOR CONTROL BOARD, Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided March 2, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Hoffman, Harrisburg, for petitioner.

Rodrigo J. Diaz, Executive Deputy Chief Counsel, Harrisburg, for respondent.

Robert J. O'Hara, III and Stanley J. Wolowski, Pittsburgh, for intervenor, Wegmans Food Markets, Inc.

BEFORE: LEADBETTER, President Judge, SMITH-RIBNER, Judge, PELLEGRINI, Judge, FRIEDMAN, Judge, COHN JUBELIRER, Judge, SIMPSON, Judge, and LEAVITT, Judge.


OPINION BY Judge SIMPSON.

In this appeal from an order of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB), Malt Beverage Distributors Association (MBDA) and Beer Super, Inc. (Beer Super), ask whether the PLCB erred in granting Wegmans Food Markets, Inc.'s (Wegmans) application for a restaurant liquor license at its store in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Essentially, MBDA argues the real seller of beer here is Wegmans' supermarket, and the notion that Wegmans' Market...

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