Walsh v. New York State Liquor Authority

This proceeding offers another variety of the continuing tests being made throughout the State of the newly embraced procedures of the State Liquor Authority (hereafter, “ Authority ”). Plaintiffs aslc for judgment declaring the Authority’s Bulletin No. 390 and rule 17 unconstitutional, as proposing deprivation of property absent due process of law. They ask, too, for a permanent injunction on issuance of new licenses because of this purported illegality and the probability of subsequent irreparable harm to themselves.

At the practical heart of this proceeding is plaintiffs’ characterization…