Myers v. Holshouser

BROCK, Chief Judge.

We are confronted, at the outset, with a determination of the scope of the investigatory powers of the North Carolina Board of Alcoholic. Control: may the Board, even if it has no probable cause, require petitioner to produce relevant business books and records without abridging his constitutional rights under the Fourth Amendment? We conclude that it may.

The Twenty-First Amendment to the United States Constitution grants to the states the right “to legislate concerning intoxicants brought from without the state for use of sale therein, unfettered by the commerce clause.”…