LEGAL ACTION IN TEXAS

[Jerry D Mead]

PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT LEGAL ACTION OF THE PAST 60 YEARS!

A legal team headed up by Sterling Steves of Lane, Ray, Wilson, Carr & Steves of Fort Worth and Mark Harwell and Mark Cotham of Cotham, Harwell & Evans in Houston filed an action before Judge Melinda Harmon in Federal District Court.

The suit (if this layman understands correctly) claims that the Texas law which restricts all personal importation to that which is personally carried in by the individual, and even that limited to 3 gallons, makes both the Texan importing from another state and the merchant or vintner shipping wine from another state guilty of a crime.

And that the statute outlining this law violates the consumer's constitutional and civil rights by denying them their rights under the Commerce Clauses of the U.S. Constitution. Not only does the suit ask that the court find in favor of the plaintiff consumers, but that both a temporary and permanent injunction against the Texas ABC and the Attorney General prohibiting enforcement of the law and that the court provide the plaintiffs with appropriate attorneys fees, expert fees and costs.

Go get 'em guys. JDM