more on No More Wine Shipping in PA? - or MA

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Christopher F. Herot" <cherot () herot com>
Date: October 9, 2005 8:16:09 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: RE: [IP] No More Wine Shipping in PA? - or MA




For those Interesting People in Massachusetts, our local politicians are
trying to do the same thing here.

http://www.winespectator.com/Wine/Features/0,1197,2940,00.html


Federal Judge Rules Massachusetts Direct-Shipping Laws Are  
Unconstitutional

Decision follows similar actions in Ohio and Florida; shipments will be
permitted until legislature acts

Eric Arnold and Dana Nigro

Posted: Friday, October 07, 2005

U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro signed an order yesterday declaring  
that
Massachusetts' laws on direct-to-consumer shipments of wine are
unconstitutional

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.
.

At the time the Massachusetts order was issued, state Sen. Michael  
Morrissey
(D), who heads the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and  
Professional
Licensure, was in the process of drafting a bill that would ban all  
direct
shipments. "We've got language; it's just being tweaked at this  
point," said
Ramon Soto, Morrissey's legislative aide. "So the judge did leave the  
door
open for us to legislate, and we're trying to do that on the fly." Even
before the bill's introduction, however, local media began  
criticizing the
move in editorials.

Alexander Tanford, a professor at the Indiana University School of  
Law who
has worked with Indianapolis-based attorney Robert Epstein on the
Massachusetts, Ohio and Florida lawsuits, doesn't expect an immediate
solution. He told Wine Spectator, "My last conversation with the  
attorney
general's office was that there were seven bills in the legislature,  
whose
session expires Nov. 15, and he was doubtful anything would happen this
session."




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