Monarch Beverage Co., Inc. v. Dale Grubb

SYKES, Circuit Judge.

We are again asked to decide whether an aspect of Indiana’s alcohol regulation system violates the Equal Protection Clause. Two years, ago we upheld an *680Indiana law that prohibits grocery and convenience stores from selling chilled beer. See Indiana Petroleum Marketers & Convenience Store Ass’n v. Cook, 808 F.3d 318 (7th Cir. 2015). In this case Monarch Beverage Company challenges a feature of Indiana’s “prohibited interest” law that separates beer and liquor wholesaling by prohibiting beer wholesalers from holding an interest in a liquor-distribution permit. See Ind. Code…