Legal Opinion
In Re Davis
Texas Supreme Court
Decided August 29, 2008No. 07-0147PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Jefferson
Both our state and nation have struggled with regulating the sale of alcoholic beverages, vacillating between outright prohibition and widespread legalization. 1 In parts of Texas, the debate rages on. Our constitution authorizes localities to decide, through local option elections, whether they will be “wet” or “dry.” Tex. Const. art. XVI, § 20; see also Tex. Algo. Bev. Code § 251.71(a) (defining “dry areas” as those in which the sale of “an alcoholic beverage of a particular type and alcohol content ... is unlawful” and “wet areas” as those in which such sales are legal). Once voters in a…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Houchins v. PlainosTexas Supreme Court · 1937
- Coker v. Texas Alcoholic Beverage CommissionCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1975
- Jackson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1938
- In Re Davis, Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)2007
3Cited by4 opinions
- FLCT, Ltd. v. City of FriscoCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2016
- Horn v. Gibson, Texas Court of Appeals, 2nd District (Fort Worth)2011
- Mary Horn, Hugh Coleman, Ron Marchant, Bobbie J. Mitchell, and Andy Eads, in Their Capacities as Denton County Judge and Commissioners of Denton County, Texas AND Eric D. Stanley v. Al Gibson, Texas Court of Appeals, 2nd District (Fort Worth)2011
- Mary Horn, Hugh Coleman, Ron Marchant, Bobbie J. Mitchell, and Andy Eads, in Their Capacities as Denton County Judge and Commissioners of Denton County, Texas AND Eric D. Stanley v. Al Gibson, Texas Court of Appeals, 2nd District (Fort Worth)2011