A call for analyzing the 3-tiered system? NJ Court says alcohol regulations need to be revisited in light of changing conditions

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There’s an quote from Justice Holmes’ The Path of the Law that goes “[i]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists from blind imitation of the past.”We often deal with a version of such a contemptible state of affairs every time someone argues or asserts “tied houses” or the “lawlessness of prohibition and pre-prohibition times” as a justification for the three-tiered-system. These are vestiges of the past that can be remedied with simple prohibitive laws against such behavior and don’t require entire …


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