Arnold's Wines, Inc. v. Boyle

WESLEY, Circuit Judge:

This case asks us to chart a course between two constitutional provisions that delineate the boundaries of a state’s power to regulate commerce, one an express grant, the other an implied limitation. Section 2 of the Twenty-first Amendment provides: “The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.” U.S. Const, amend. XXI, § 2. The Commerce Clause reserves for Congress the power “[t]o regulate Commerce ... among the…