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GRANITE STATE GROCERS ASS'N v. STATE LIQUOR COMM'N.

No. 6268.

112 N.H. 62 (1972)

GRANITE STATE GROCERS ASSOCIATION & a. v. STATE LIQUOR COMMISSION & a.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

March 7, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Perkins, Perkins & Douglas (Mr. Charles G. Douglas orally) for the plaintiffs.

Warren B. Rudman, attorney general, Thomas B. Wingate, assistant attorney general (Mr. Wingate orally), for the defendants New Hampshire State Liquor Commission and its individual members.

Goodwin, Procter & Hoar (of Massachusetts) by brief for defendants Cumberland Farm stores; Wiggin, Nourie, Sundeen, Pingree & Bigg of counsel.

Sheehan, Phinney, Bass & Green (Mr. William L. Phinney orally) for the intervenor, First National Stores, Inc.

KENISON, C.J.

The principal issue transferred in this case is whether the prohibition against any person holding more than two off-sale beverage permits (RSA 181:22) deprives chain stores of equal protection of the law in violation of the New Hampshire Constitution, part I, article 1.

This case arises out of a petition by Granite State Grocers Association, an association of independent grocers, and by George Gordon individually against the New Hampshire State...

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