# Reynolds v. Louisiana Board of Alcoholic Beverage Control

> Supreme Court of Louisiana · April 1, 1966 · 249 La. 127

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9681915

## Case

- **Full name:** Lawrence J. REYNOLDS, D/B/A Larry & Katz v. LOUISIANA BOARD OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL; David Y. MARTIN, Jr., D/B/A Martin’s Wine Cellar v. LOUISIANA BOARD OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL; SCHWEGMANN BROTHERS GIANT SUPER MARKETS v. LOUISIANA BOARD OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Louisiana
- **Decided:** April 1, 1966
- **Citations:** 249 La. 127; 185 So. 2d 794; 1966 La. LEXIS 2483
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Sanders
- **Judges:** McCaleb, Hamiter, Summers, Sanders, Hawtpiorne, Hamlin
- **Cited by:** 13 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

SANDERS, Justice
(dissenting).
I can see no substantial difference between Act 290 of 1964 and the 1948 statute that this Court struck down in Schwegmann Brothers v. Louisiana Board of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 216 La. 148 , 43 So.2d 248 , 14 A.L.R.2d 680 (1949). Nor can I find any significant change in the basic economic factors since that decision. Hence, in my opinion, the previous decision requires that the present statute be declared unconstitutional.
The statute has no real or substantial relation to temperance in the use of alcoholic beverages. Rather, it is designed to eliminate price competition in the market by fixing a minimum price. The statute simply chops away another section of our free enterprise system. As Justice Brandéis aptly warned, “No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.”
I respectfully dissent.

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