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hawaii
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hawaii
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powell
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part
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frank
easterbrook
argued
cause
appellants
briefs
allan
haley
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bader
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freitas
james
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bruce
bigelow
eric
yamamoto
filed
brief
foremost
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appellee
rule
support
appellants
william
david
dexter
special
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attorney
general
hawaii
argued
cause
appellee
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brief
tany
hong
attorney
general
bruce
honda
deputy
attorney
general
kevin
wakayama
special
assistant
attorney
general
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stair
harrell
russell
shannon
lawrence
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wine
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lerman
daniel
marcus
ronald
greene
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corrigan
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delivered
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challenge
constitutionality
hawaii
liquor
tax
excise
tax
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sales
liquor
wholesale
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produced
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stock
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state
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quoting
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hawaii
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hawaii
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products
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conclude
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bruce
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investment
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hawaii
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amendment
rewriting
see
also
mahoney
joseph
triner
since
adoption
amendment
equal
protection
clause
applicable
imported
intoxicating
liquor
cf
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boren
may
example
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unconstitutional
discrimination
full
refund
mandated
state
law
justice
stevens
justice
rehnquist
justice
join
dissenting
four
wholesalers
alcoholic
beverages
filed
separate
complaints
challenging
constitutionality
hawaii
liquor
tax
pursuant
exception
since
expired
tax
imposed
okolehao
pineapple
wine
certain
tax
years
although
one
actually
sells
okolehao
pineapple
wine
apparently
four
entitled
engage
wholesale
sale
beverages
well
various
alcoholic
beverages
sell
tax
challenge
excise
tax
amounting
percent
wholesale
price
presumably
economic
burden
tax
passed
wholesalers
customers
today
holds
wholesalers
entitled
litigate
whether
discriminatory
tax
adverse
competitive
impact
business
ante
skeptical
ability
wholesalers
prove
exemption
okolehao
pineapple
wine
harmed
businesses
partly
customers
reimbursed
excise
tax
partly
free
take
advantage
benefit
exemption
selling
exempted
products
even
minimal
harm
proved
even
skeptical
possibility
result
refund
wholesalers
claiming
skepticism
concerning
economics
wholesalers
position
however
basis
dissent
affirm
judgment
hawaii
wholesalers
commerce
clause
claim
squarely
foreclosed
amendment
constitution
outset
critical
importance
proper
understanding
significance
amendment
litigation
note
issues
case
raise
first
claim
hawaii
tax
inconsistent
exercise
power
art
cl
constitution
confers
upon
congress
regulate
commerce
among
several
extent
amendment
may
may
placed
limits
ability
congress
regulate
commerce
alcoholic
beverages
simply
issue
case
hence
issue
concerning
continuing
applicability
previously
enacted
federal
statutes
affecting
liquor
industry
purposes
analysis
may
assume
arguendo
amendment
left
power
congress
entirely
unimpaired
moreover
claim
hawaii
tax
impaired
interstate
commerce
merely
passes
state
destined
terminate
federal
enclave
within
state
claim
due
process
violation
claim
discrimination
among
persons
opposed
goods
claim
effect
liquor
prices
outside
state
tax
applied
sale
liquor
local
market
presumably
consumed
hawaii
thus
falls
squarely
within
protection
given
hawaii
second
section
amendment
expressly
mentions
delivery
use
therein
ii
prior
adoption
constitutional
amendments
concerning
intoxicating
liquors
long
history
special
state
federal
legislation
respecting
intoxicating
liquors
resulting
litigation
challenging
legislation
commerce
clause
commerce
clause
effectively
prevented
unilaterally
banning
local
sale
intoxicating
liquors
state
leisy
hardin
congress
acting
pursuant
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power
commerce
clause
essentially
conferred
authority
upheld
exercise
congressional
power
clark
distilling
western
maryland
eighteenth
amendment
ratified
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manufacture
sale
transportation
intoxicating
liquors
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purposes
expressly
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power
enforce
prohibition
congress
several
section
amendment
ratified
repealed
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amendment
however
constitutional
authority
regulate
commerce
intoxicating
liquors
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status
prior
adoption
constitutional
amendments
amendment
expressly
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transportation
importation
state
territory
possession
delivery
use
therein
intoxicating
liquors
violation
laws
thereof
hereby
prohibited
iii
today
essence
holds
hawaii
tax
unconstitutional
places
burden
intoxicating
liquors
imported
hawaii
use
therein
imposed
liquors
produced
locally
read
text
amendment
expressly
authorizes
sort
burden
moreover
read
justice
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seminal
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state
board
equalization
young
market
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squarely
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young
market
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california
statute
imposed
license
fee
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beer
place
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prior
amendment
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amendment
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local
monopoly
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competition
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liquors
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length
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transportation
importation
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liquors
state
violation
laws
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right
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liquors
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confer
upon
state
power
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ask
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request
us
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may
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importation
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liquors
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manufacture
sale
within
borders
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manufacture
sale
must
let
imported
liquors
compete
domestic
equal
terms
say
involve
construction
amendment
rewriting
plaintiffs
argue
despite
amendment
state
may
regulate
importations
except
purpose
protecting
public
health
safety
morals
importer
license
fee
imposed
end
surely
state
may
adopt
lesser
degree
regulation
total
prohibition
doubted
state
might
establish
state
monopoly
manufacture
sale
beer
either
prohibit
competing
importations
discourage
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impost
channelize
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importations
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compare
cases
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vance
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prohibit
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importation
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liquor
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liquors
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state
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article
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importation
fee
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power
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within
meaning
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hostetter
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voyage
liquor
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amendment
kentucky
regulate
completely
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importation
intoxicants
intoxicants
destined
distribution
use
consumption
within
borders
surely
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plenary
power
regulate
control
taxation
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distribution
use
consumption
intoxicants
within
territory
imported
decide
today
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precise
words
clause
constitution
kentucky
may
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impost
imports
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primarily
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clause
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force
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purpose
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empower
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liquor
industries
erecting
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competition
ante
follows
according
state
laws
constitute
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laws
enacted
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perceived
evils
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liquor
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amendment
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two
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nominally
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ante
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reversal
four
parties
case
hawaiian
hawaii
noted
paradise
acknowledges
beneficiary
exemptions
taxation
provided
hrs
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fruit
wine
produced
hawaii
nevertheless
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statute
unconstitutional
probably
volume
sales
exempted
products
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imports
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issue
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wholesalers
specific
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inherently
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board
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power
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legislators
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