Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Assn. v. Thomas

18-96, 588 U.S. 504 (2019), was a United States Supreme Court case which held that Tennessee's two-year durational-residency requirement applicable to retail liquor store license applicants violated the Commerce Clause (Dormant Commerce Clause) and was not authorized by the Twenty-first Amendment.

[1][2][3] The state of Tennessee imposed a series of durational-residency requirements on all people and businesses seeking to obtain or renew a license to operate a liquor store.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit struck down all of the provisions as violations of the Commerce Clause.

Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association petitioned the ruling pertaining to the two-year residency requirement.

Does Tennessee's two-year residency requirement for the obtaining of a liquor license violate the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution?