Judge strikes down ban on stores selling liquor

Published August 14, 2012 8:03pm ET



LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s seven-decade old ban on grocery stores, gas stations and other retailers selling wine and liquor is unconstitutional because it violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, a federal judge ruled.

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