Legal Opinion
Seagram Distillers Co. v. Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 18, 1988PublishedCited by 114 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLynch, J.
Two liquor distillers and a liquor wholesaler cross appeal from Superior Court judgments affirming two decisions of the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission. The primary issue involved is what constitutes “good cause” termination by the supplier of a wholesale liquor distributorship agreement under G. L. c. 138, § 25E.4 The parties also allege other errors *715of law and question the sufficiency of and support in the evidence for findings of the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission (commission). The distillers also attack the constitutionality of G. L. c. 138, § 25E. We took the cases on our…
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