LEGAL ACTION IN TEXAS

[Jerry D Mead]

Epi..You haven't read this lawsuit...I have. The suit is a civil rights suit based on the Constitutional guarantees under the Commerce Clauses giving us all the right to do business with anyone we wish, in any state we wish, without protective tariffs or other trade restraints. Even existing local availability would not be a defense against this suit.

If a consumer wants to buy a given bottle of wine that's available down the street from a merchant 3000 miles away and incur all the shipping costs involved...that is his Constitutional right the way I read it and the way this legal action is designed.

That's why I call it the most important piece of wine legislation in the past 60 years.

JDM