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   CONTROL VERSUS COMPETITION: THE COURTS'
         ENIGMATIC JOURNEY IN THE OBSCURE
      BORDERLAND BETWEEN THE TWENTY-FIRST
         AMENDMENT AND COMMERCE CLAUSE


                      Michael  D. Madigant


I.    INTRODUCTION...........................................   2
II.   THE  PUBLIC POLICY UNDERLYING   ALCOHOL   REGULATION...... 7
III.  THE  EIGHTEENTH  AMENDMENT .......................... 10
IV.   THE  TWENTY-FIRST AMENDMENT ......................... 12
V.    THE  TWENTY-FIRST AMENDMENT & THE DORMANT COMMERCE
      CLAUSE................................................   14
      A.  Regulatory Differentiation Between In-State & Out-of- State
          Producers .     .............................. ..... 16
      B.  Regulatory Differentiation Between In-State & Out-of-State
          Retailers.................................... 20
      C.  Regulatory Differentiation Between In-State & Out-of-State
          Distributors   ...................................... 22
      D.  Facially Neutral State Regulations: Discriminatory Purpose &
          Effect...................................... 23




    t  Michael D. Madigan has practiced alcohol beverage law for more than
thirty years. He is the managing shareholder at Madigan, Dahl & Harlan P.A. He
represents both the Minnesota Beer Wholesalers Association and the National Beer
Wholesalers Association (NBWA). See, e.g., Joint Motion of the National Beer
Wholesalers Association and the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America, Inc. for
Leave to Submit an Amici Curiae Brief Pursuant to Frap 29(b), Retail Dig. Network,
LLC v. Gorsuch, 842 F.3d 1092, 1093 (9th Cir. 2016) (No. 13-56069), 2016 WL
7210479; Brief of the Associated Beer Distributors of Illinois as Amicus Curiae in
Support of Defendants in Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment,
Anheuser-Busch, Inc. v. Schnorf, 738 F. Supp. 2d 793, 796 (N.D. Ill. 2010) (No. 10-
cv-01601), https://www.beerinsights.com/popups/ABDIbrief.pdf [https://perma.
cc/HF63-7M4G] ; Brief of National Beer Wholesalers Association as Amicus Curiae
in Support of Petitioners, Granholm v. Heald, 544 U.S. 460 (2005) (Nos. 03-1116,
03-1120, 03-1274), 2004 WL 440852; Brief of the National Beer Wholesalers
Association and the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America, Inc. as Amici Curiae in
Support of Defendants-Appellants and for Reversal, TFWS, Inc. v. Franchot, 572
F.3d 186, 196 (4th Cir. 2009) (No. 07-2108), 2008 WL 481155.


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