Orlandella Grocery Co. v. Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission

These are two petitions for review brought under G. L. c. 30A, § 14, by package store licensees against the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission (ABC). The ABC had found violations of G. L. c. 138, § 15, and suspended their licenses. The Superior Court quashed the decisions of the ABC, and the ABC appealed.

In both cases it was established that the petitioners had sold alcoholic beverages at a price below that posted on the shelf. According to a stipulation in each case, the posted *474shelf price was in fact equal to the minimum consumer price as then approved for the alcoholic beverages in…