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South Carolina Supreme Court gets it right on economic protectionism

April 17, 2017 | By CALEB TROTTER

As pointed out by Eugene Volokh, the South Carolina Supreme Court recently considered a case in which the S.C. Department of Revenue defended a law on the sole basis of protecting one industry group (operators of small liquor stores) from competing with larger operations like Total Wine & More. The controversy arose because South Carolina law ...