Tom Cotter
Associate Dean for Research & Planning
Taft Stettinius & Hollister Professor of Law

Law360 Quotes Prof. Cotter on Antitrust Circuit Split Over State Liquor Laws

A Law360 article, titled “2nd Circ. Tussle Distills Court Divide On Booze Laws,” discusses a recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decision rejecting an antitrust challenge to Connecticut’s “post and hold” law regarding liquor wholesaler prices. The article notes that other circuits have struck down similar laws, and quotes Professor Tom Cotter as stating, among other things, that this issue may be “the kind of low-hanging fruit that the [Supreme] Court may say, ‘Let’s resolve the circuit split and get it over with.’”