Article: License Cases

LICENSE CASES

LICENSE CASES ( Thurlow v. Massachusetts, Fletcher v. Rhode Island, Peirce v. New Hampshire ), 5 How. (46 U.S.) 504 (1847). In six opinions, with no majority, the United States Supreme Court upheld state statutes regulating the sale of alcoholic beverages that had been brought in from other states. The statutes were quadruply controversial: they involved temperance and prohibition, they impinged on interstate commerce, they interfered with property rights, and they ...

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