Legal Opinion
Massachusetts Food Ass'n v. Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 7, 1999No. 99-1277, 99-1280PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
Massachusetts, like many other states, extensively regulates the sale of alcoholic beverages. Among other restrictions, retail outlets must be licensed, each license embraces only a single location, and no firm or person is allowed “more than three such licenses in the commonwealth....” Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 138, § 15 (1998). Thus, no one can own more than three retail liquor stores in the Commonwealth. Although some state regulations also impinge on retail prices, e.g., Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 138, § 25C, they are not at issue here.
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