Brown-Forman Corp. v. Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission

This appeal concerns a decision of the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission (commission) in which it concluded on the evidence before it that the Brown-Forman Corporation (Brown-Forman) was required by G. L. c. 138, *499§ 25E, to make regular sales of certain alcoholic beverage products to M.S. Walker, Inc. (Walker), a Massachusetts wholesaler of alcoholic beverages licensed under G. L. c. 138, § 18. Brown-Forman appealed the commission’s decision to the Superior Court, where Walker was allowed to intervene as a defendant.1 A Superior Court judge reversed the commission’s decision and ordered…