More on Costco Briefs

As the stakes rise in the Costco litigation in Washington state, both sides issued briefs (ordered to be under 10 pages) to Judge Pechman defending their views on the state ban on central warehousing and retailer-to-retailer alcohol sales. Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna asked in the state's nine-page supplemental brief for the dismissal of Costco's request for a verbal overturn of the central warehousing and retailer-to-retailer bans on antitrust grounds. Rob said they "do not reduce price competition and