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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Dumb Booze laws
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Date: Fri, 18-May-84 10:42:17 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 18 10:42:17 1984
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Re possible federal standards for booze sales overriding wierd state & local
restrictions:

Since the "interstate commerce" clause/loophole/whatever can be used for
federal regulation of retail sales in areas like "Fair Trade" and the
proposed FTC regulations in areas like used car sales and funeral
practices, why couldn't it also be used to establish uniform alcoholic 
beverage sale regulations?

What's intrinsically different in this situation?

After all, the BATF establishes federal rulings for liquor package
sizes (notice the metric bottles?) and label markings now.

Will