Article: MAGISTRATE RECOMMENDS UPHOLDING MAINE LAW PROHIBITING DIRECT SHIPMENT OF WINE

The Maine Attorney General issued the following news release:

Attorney General Steve Rowe today announced that U.S. Magistrate Judge Margaret J. Kravchuk has issued a recommended decision upholding the State's prohibition on direct shipment of wine. Oregon winery Cherry Hill Vineyard and Hampden resident Philip Brooks filed a lawsuit challenging the law in U.S. District Court in Maine last year after the U.S. Supreme Court found that New York and Michigan laws violated the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution by treating direct shipment of wine by in-state wineries differently from those by out-of-state wineries.

The Attorney General argued that the purpose and effect of the Maine law ...

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