Court Opinion

ID: 9478906
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 07:02:11.196182+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:46:41.618231
License: Public Domain

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge,
concurring in part and concurring in the result:
I concur in the whole of the court’s opinion except its resolution of the Popes’ constitutional challenges to Mississippi’s statutory prohibition against their giving gifts to customers under Miss.Code Ann. § 73-35-21. I do not agree with the court that the Popes’ challenges are sufficiently substantial to require us to construe § 73-35-21 and to imply to the State of Mississippi that this law may be unconstitutional if the State does not accept our construction. Nonetheless, and for the same reason, I concur in the court’s result.