Legal Opinion
Coors Brewing Co. v. Méndez-Torres
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 30, 2009No. 07-2682PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
Coors Brewing Company (“Coors”) sued Juan Carlos Méndez-Torres, Puerto Rico’s secretary of the Treasury (“the Secretary”), challenging an exemption in Puerto Rico’s beer taxing scheme which specifies a lower tax rate for small brewers. Coors alleges that the exemption is impermissibly protectionist. Coors seeks declarations that the exemption is unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause and illegal under the Federal Relations Act, 48 U.S.C. § 741a. Coors also seeks an injunction barring the Secretary “from allowing any taxpayer to pay only the reduced rate of tax…
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