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Tuesday, May 2, 1995
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Court to hear liquor advertising case
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will decide whether states may promote sobriety by banning price advertising for liquor.
A challenge to Pennsylvania's ban on price advertising, apparently the most similar to Rhode Island's, also is pending before the high court. It likely will not be acted on until the justices reach a decision in the Rhode Island case, probably sometime in 1996.
The court said yesterday that it would review a free-speech challenge to Rhode Island's price-advertising ban, enforced since 1956 as an attempt to reduce consumption of alcoholic beverages.
Two weeks ago, the nation's highest court struck down a federal law
The justices were told many states have similar laws that ban or in some way limit liquor price advertising. Listed as examples were Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and South Carolina.
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that banned brewers from putting alcohol content information on the labels of beer cans and bottles.
Rhode Island law allows advertising for alcoholic beverages but requires publishers to exclude any mention of prices, or even the word sale.
The prohibition was challenged after 44 Liquormart was informed in 1991 that it was in violation of the state law.
The justices said the 1935 federal law, aimed at preventing strength wars among beer manufacturers, violated free-sneech rights.
Rhode Island's price advertising ban is being attacked by a Johnston liquor store, 44 Liquormart Inc., and by People's Super Liquor Stores Inc., which sells liquor to Rhode Island residents from its two Massachusetts stores.
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The appeals court said the liquor-regulatory authority granted to the states by the Constitution's 21st Amendment, which ended Prohibition, added to the 1982 standard a "presumption in favor of the validity of the state regulation in this area."
The appeals court relied heavily on a 1980 Supreme Court decision that set up a standard for judging the constitutionality of limits on commercial speech, which is not as protected as noncommercial forms of expression.
The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the ban last year, ruling that it was a constitutionally permissible limitation on commercial speech.
Lawyers for 44 Liquormart and Peoples argue that the 11 Circuit Court's ruling lets Rhode Island use the 21st Amendment to topple First Amendment rights, which include
The appeal also contended that the state's interest — curbing alcoholic consumption — isn't served by the ban on price advertising.
The 1980 decision said commercial speech that was not misleading and concerned a legal activity may be limited only if government has a substantial interest, the limitation directly advances that interest, and the restriction is no more extensive than necessary.
A federal trial judge ruled that the ban violated free-speech rights, but
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Peoples' stores in Fairhaven and New Bedford, Mass., sell liquor to Rhode Island residents. The stores are allowed to publish price advertising in Massachusetts, but Rhode Island publishers are barred by the state law from accepting such advertising.
Let stand rulings that required a Bloomingdale, Mich., high school to take down a portrait of Jesus Christ that had been displayed on a hallway wall for 30 years. School officials had argued that displaying the portrait should be allowed because it offered no religious message and raised no church-state problem.
Refused to reinstate a $1.2 million award won, and then lost, by two Columbia, Mo., residents who say police did not adequately protect their family from domestic violence.
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