Supreme Court Countdown

It's been years in the making, and we always believed it would come down to a Supreme Court hearing. On Friday afternoon, the state of Michigan made the first crucial move: Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox sent a petition to the highest court in the land, the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to consider whether Michigan can continue to ban direct shipments of alcohol to consumers.THE CASE HISTORY. You'll recall that Michican wine writer Ray Heald sued the state in