44 Liquormart, Inc. v. Rhode Island

44 Liquormart Inc. v. Rhode Island
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 1, 1995 Decided May 13, 1996
Full case name	44 Liquormart, Inc. and Peoples Super Liquor Stores, inc., petitioners v. Rhode Island and Rhode Island Liquor Stores Association
Docket no.	94-1140
Citations	517 U.S. 484 (more) 116 S. Ct. 1495; 134 L. Ed. 2d 711
Case history
Prior	829 F. Supp. 543 (D.R.I. 1993), reversed 39 F.3d 5 (1st Cir. 1994), cert. granted, 517 U.S. 484 (1996).
Holding
The State of Rhode Island violated the First Amendment rights of the petitioners, and the Twenty-first Amendment does not lessen the state's obligation to abide by constitutional provisions beyond the dormant commerce clause.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Stevens, joined by Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg (parts I, II, VII); Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg (part VIII)
Plurality	Stevens (parts III, V), joined by Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg
Plurality	Stevens (part VI), joined by Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg
Plurality	Stevens (part IV), joined by Kennedy, Ginsburg
Concurrence	Scalia
Concurrence	Thomas
Concurrence	O'Connor, joined by Rehnquist, Souter, Breyer
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amends. I, XIV, XXI

44 Liquormart, Inc. v. Rhode Island, 517 U.S. 484 (1996), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a complete ban on the advertising of alcohol prices was unconstitutional under the First Amendment, and that the Twenty-first Amendment, empowering the states to regulate alcohol, did not lessen other constitutional restraints of state power.