Great Eastern Liquor Corp. v. State Liquor Authority

Whatever may be the reasons of policy leading the Legislature to prescribe the display of price signs and to regulate price advertising of liquor, it seems obvious from a reading of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law as a whole that the Legislature has not attempted to promote temperance by making alcoholic beverages more expensive to New York consumers.

In the same section of the same statute (§ 101-b, subd. 1) which states (as does § 2) that one of the purposes of the act is “ to promote temperance ”, there is a mandatory requirement that manufacturers of brand liquor shall file with the…