In other SCOTUS news, see the Wine Case, Granholm v. Heald, discussed at the Scotus blog. It hinges on how the implied “the States can’t interfere too much with Interstate Commerce” part of the Commerce Clause (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3) relates t…

We call it “Classiness, All Around Us.” Click to explore more WILLisms.com. In no particular order, WILLisms.com presents classiness from the blogosphere (now with 50% more classy!): 1. The SCOTUSblog picks apart the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision striki…

The Supreme Court ruled today on the so-called

Item: All wine is created equal, U.S. Supreme Court rules See SCOTUSBlog for details:Ruling 5-4, the Supreme Court on Monday struck down two states’ laws that forbid wineries located out of state to ship wine directly to customers in those

And the state laws in Michigan and New York are found to be unconstitutional.In soaring rhetoric, Kennedy said that preserving cross-country access to consumers was “essential to the foundations of the Union,” citing the Federalist Papers, and the work…

As for the court’s reasoning, from what I’ve read, I have no qualms with it. It seems eminently reasonable to interpret the Twenty-First Amendment in a way that is consistent with the rest of the Constitution, especially the power of Congress to regu…

If the decision really does allow unfettered wine-by-mail, there will be lots of happy Up Staters. The vineyard owners will be happy. Those of us who live here and would like to mail vinous presents to family and friends will…

Justice Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in today’s decision in Granholm v. Heald, the wine-shipping cases, with the Court holding that the Twenty-first Amendment does not trump the Commerce Clause when the two come in conflict. As I explain in…

Three years ago, when I moved from the Bay Area leaving my job at Stanford, I learned from UPS that I could not ship my (small) personal collection of wines that I had accumulated in CA into the state of…

The wine shipment opinion is out (link is to syllabus PDF, see here for links to all opinions), and far more learned analysis of it will come from elsewhere than here. I will just point out that it includes two rare Ms. Justice O’Connor-related feature…

SCOTUSblog is reporting that the Supreme Court has struck down the two state laws that banned the direct sale of wine to consumers from out-of-state wineries (par…

The Scotusblog notes that the court has bought the Dormant Commerce Clause arguments in Granholm v. Held.