WineAmerica, Coalition for Free Trade, Family of Winemakers of California, et al.
Amici Curiae
Robert P. Mahnke, Counsel of RecordWineAmerica, Coalition for Free Trade, and Family of Winemakers of California are joined in this brief by numerous State vintners associations and grape growing associations. Robert P. Mahnke is an associate with the law firm Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, specializing in antitrust and trade regulation. He received his law degree from the University of Chicago in 1995. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on September 23, 2004.This Court has repeatedly acted to further the Framers’ original vision that the many States,…