Another Victory for Three-Tier

The tide seems to be turning for advocates of three-tier systems, as a U.S. Judge in Maine's District Court recommended last week that the Court uphold that state's law requiring wine to be sold face-to-face. Judge Margaret J. Kravchuk wrote that Maine's current law "simply does not impose any cognizable burden on interstate commerce that could possibly outweigh the putative local benefit of regulating minors' access to alcohol." She added, "But here the patently obvious circumstances are that the subject