US: Oklahoma Supreme Court upholds wine initiative petition
US: Oklahoma Supreme Court upholds wine initiative petition
Jun 28, 2012 6
(AP) — An initiative petition to ask voters if they want to allow grocery stores in the state's largest counties to sell wine was narrowly approved by the Oklahoma Supreme Court on Thursday. In a 5-4 decision, the state's highest court rejected arguments that the proposal violates the state and U.S. constitutions and said “there is a rational basis for the provisions” within the proposal.
Initiative Petition No. 396 is supported by Oklahomans for Modern Laws and, if approved at the ballot box, would bring about one of the biggest changes to state liquor laws since Prohibition was repealed in 1959 and liquor-by-the-drink was allowed in bars and nightclubs on a county-option basis in 1984.
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