Opinion

Pennsylvania State Police v. Hospitality Investments of Philadelphia, Inc.

  • 547 Pa. 142
  • 689 A.2d 213
  • 1997 Pa. LEXIS 304
Court
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Filed
Feb 6, 1997
Status
Published
Author
Castille
On the bench
Flaherty, Zappala, Cappy, Castille, Nigro, Newman, Dkt, Dkts
Cited by
9 cases
Authority
More cited than 10.2%

striking down the prohibition of price advertising of liquor

How later courts described this case

  • striking down the prohibition of price advertising of liquor
  • “[T]he United States Supreme Court is the final arbiter of challenges brought under the United States Constitution”
  • opinion issued February 6, 1997

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

CASTILLE, Justice,

concurring.

I join in the majority opinion since it reaches the same conclusion that I reached in my dissenting opinion in this case when the matter was first before the Court in 1994. Pennsylvania State Police, Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement v. Hospitality Investments of Philadelphia, Inc., 539 Pa. 108, 116 , 650 A.2d 854, 858 (1994) (Flaherty and Castille, JJ., dissenting), vacated and remanded, — U.S. —, 116 S.Ct. 1821 , 134 L.Ed.2d 927 (1996).

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