Costco Loses Long Fight to Reform Wine Distribution Laws

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Eric Arnold
Issue: April 30, 2008

Costco Wholesale Corp. has lost its long battle to overhaul wine-distribution laws in its home state of Washington. Costco sued the state in 2004, arguing that the state's system violated federal antitrust laws.

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