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DIRECTOR OF the NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL, Defendant-Appellee, and Gallup Sales Company, Pucci Distributing Company, Pecos Sales Company and State Beer Distributors, Inc., Intervenors-Appellees." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "OPINION\nSOSA, Chief Justice.\nStroh Brewery Company (Stroh) appeals summary judgment granted to the Director of the New Mexico Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (the Director), awarding the Director nearly $18 million in damages plus interest. The damages represent the court\u2019s determination of the difference between the price at which Stroh sold beer in New Mexico between 1979 and 1985 and the price at which Stroh allegedly was supposed to sell its beer under statutes discussed below. Intervenors are various wholesale liquor distributors allegedly harmed by Stroh\u2019s action in selling them beer in violation of the statutes. Intervenors and the Director have agreed among themselves to divide equally any judgment enforced against Stroh. For brevity we will refer to the appellees as the Director; the Director and the Intervenors advance much the same arguments on appeal.\nWe break down our discussion of this long, complex case into the following segments:\n(1) In 1979, Stroh\u2019s predecessor in this action filed a complaint seeking a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief, alleging that the price affirmation requirement of the 1979 \u201cDiscrimination in Selling Act\u201d (the 1979 law) violated the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution.\n(2) The trial court entered a preliminary injunction temporarily enjoining the Director from enforcing the law, contingent upon Stroh\u2019s predecessor executing a bond, the pertinent terms of which were as follows:\n[Stroh agrees to pay] the amount representing the difference between the prices at which [Stroh] has sold beer to wholesalers and distributors in New Mexico during the pendency of the injunction, and the price at which [Stroh] would have been required to sell the same beer under the requirements of [the 1979 law], with interest ... if and only if, it should be finally decided by the Court that [the 1979 law] is valid and the preliminary injunction should not have been entered.\n(3) The trial court then issued a memorandum opinion on January 7, 1980, granting summary judgment to the Director, upholding the constitutionality of the 1979 law in reliance on Joseph E. Seagram & Sons v. Hostetter, 384 U.S. 35, 86 S.Ct. 1254,16 L.Ed.2d 336 (1966) (Seagram) (upholding New York\u2019s retrospective price affirmation law).\n(4) Stroh\u2019s predecessor appealed the January 7, 1980 summary judgment. The court continued the preliminary injunction bond as a supersedeas bond during the pendency of the appeal. While the appeal was pending, the Legislature repealed the 1979 law and enacted a new version of the prior statute \u2014 the 1981 law.\n(5) For purposes of this appeal, the pertinent portions of the 1979 and 1981 laws, respectively, are as follows:\nSection 60-12-6 [the 1979 law] \u2014 Filing of affirmation There shall be filed in connection with * * * the schedule filed for a brand of alcoholic liquor, an affirmation duly verified by the owner of the brand of alcoholic liquor that the bottle and case price * * * to wholesalers * * * is no higher than the lowest price at which such item of liquor was sold by the brand owner * * * to any wholesaler anywhere in any other state * * * at any time during the calendar month immediately preceding the month in which the schedule is filed.\nSection 60-8A-15 [the 1981 law] \u2014 Filing of affirmation The owner of a brand of alcoholic beverages shall file as part of the schedule a verified affirmation that the price to New Mexico wholesalers is no greater than the lowest price at which the item of alcoholic beverages is sold by the brand owner * * * to any wholesaler anywhere in any other state * * *.\nThus the principle difference between the two statutes was that in the 1979 law the comparison period for affirmed prices was tied to the prior month, while for the 1981 law there was a contemporaneous price affirmation requirement.\n(6) On July 21, 1983, we affirmed the trial court\u2019s January 7, 1980 summary judgment. United States Brewers Ass\u2019n v. Director of N.M. Dep\u2019t of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 100 N.M. 216, 668 P.2d 1093 (1983), appeal dismissed, 465 U.S. 1093, 104 S.Ct. 1581, 80 L.Ed.2d 115 (1984). We reasoned that the trial court had correctly applied the Seagram holding. Id. 100 N.M. at 220-21, 668 P.2d at 1097-98. We held that Seagram was dispositive and remanded the case for further proceedings. Id. The constitutionality of the 1981 law was not before us in United States Brewers Ass\u2019n. Stroh appealed our decision to the Supreme Court, but the appeal was dismissed for lack of a substantial federal question. United States Brewers Ass\u2019n v. Rodriguez, 465 U.S. 1093, 104 S.Ct. 1581, 80 L.Ed.2d 115 (1984).\n(7) On June 14, 1985, the 1981 law was amended to exclude beer from the price affirmation requirement. Hence Stroh\u2019s liability, if any, under either the 1979 or 1981 laws, ceased when the new statute went into effect. Prior to the effective date of the new statute, on February 21, 1985, the trial court dissolved both the injunction and the stay of enforcement which had been in effect pending appeal and remand. The parties agree that the maximum damage liability period, if any, runs from June 15, 1979, through February 21, 1985. Stroh contends this maximum period is inapplicable.\n(8) During the period when United States Brewers Ass\u2019n was on remand to the trial court, the United States Supreme Court issued two opinions decisively changing the law on the subject of pricing affirmation requirements in statutes similar to the 1979 and 1981 laws. First, in Brown-Forman Distillers Corp. v. New York State Liquor Authority, 476 U.S. 573, 106 S.Ct. 2080, 90 L.Ed.2d 552 (1986), the Court struck down New York\u2019s prospective price affirmation statute. Second, in Healy v. Beer Institute, 491 U.S. 324, 109 S.Ct. 2491, 105 L.Ed.2d 275 (1989) (Healy II), the Court overruled Seagram and declared all pricing affirmation statutes unconstitutional. 491 U.S. at 343, 109 S.Ct. at 2502-03.\n(9) The parties then moved again for summary judgment, with Stroh arguing that after Healy II the 1979 law had been shown to be \u201cfinally invalid\u201d under the terms of the bond, and thus Stroh had no liability under the bond. Although conceding that the 1981 law was unconstitutional because of Healy II, the Director nonetheless argues that the 1979 law entitled it to damages from 1979 to 1985, even though the 1979 law was arguably in effect only until 1981, when the 1981 law purportedly repealed the 1979 law. The Director argued both that the 1979 law revived when the 1981 law became unconstitutional and that our holding in United States Brewers Ass\u2019n, upholding the 1979 law, was the law of the case.\n(10) The trial court agreed with the Director and granted summary judgment, which Stroh now appeals. The trial court ruled, inter alia, \u201cThe 1979 law was constitutional and valid and provided a continuing basis for Stroh\u2019s liability____ [T]he validity of the 1979 law is a closed question * * *. Because the 1979 law is valid, Stroh is liable upon its bond and all that remains is to determine the exact amount which Stroh owes the State.\u201d\n(11) On appeal, Stroh asserts the following:\n(a) The 1979 law has been finally decided to be invalid. Thus, Stroh never had and does not have now any liability under the bond;\n(b) Even if it should be decided that the 1979 law were valid, that law was repealed by the 1981 law, and, not having revived, imposes no liability on Stroh past the date of its repeal;\nThe parties advance the following arguments on appeal. Stroh argues that our holding in United States Brewers Ass\u2019n is not the law of the case and should not be applied as such in determining if Stroh is liable under the bond. Stroh argues that, following our holdings in Reese v. State, 106 N.M. 505, 506, 745 P.2d 1153, 1154 (1987), and Moya v. Catholic Archdiocese, 107 N.M. 245, 248, 755 P.2d 583, 586 (1988), the law of the case doctrine in New Mexico cannot be used \u201cwhere the former appellate decision was clearly, palpably, or manifestly erroneous * * (quoting Reese, 106 N.M. at 507, 745 P.2d at 1155). Under the supremacy clause of the United States Constitution, Stroh argues, we must follow the mandate of Healy II in holding the 1979 law invalid, and thus absolve Stroh from any liability under the bond.\nThe Director counters by arguing that under the Supreme Court\u2019s recent holding in American Trucking Associations v. Smith, 496 U.S. 167, 110 S.Ct. 2323, 110 L.Ed.2d 148 (1990), Healy II should not be given \u201cretroactive effect.\u201d Consequently, the Director argues, our prior ruling on the 1979 law in United States Brewers Ass\u2019n is the law of the case and must be given effect now, regardless of any subsequent invalidation of the 1979 law by Healy II. The Director also urges a different reading of New Mexico law of the case doctrine than that asserted by Stroh. By that doctrine, the Director argues, we correctly decided United States Brewers Ass\u2019n based on Seagram, the applicable governing precedent at the time of our decision. Hence, our decision in the case, establishing the law of the case, was not \u201cclearly, palpably or manifestly erroneous or unjust.\u201d\nWhile the statement of this case has been difficult, our resolution of it is relatively simple. It is clear that Healy II has in effect \u201cfinally invalidated\u201d the 1979 law. Yet, there is nothing in the Healy II opinion to indicate that the holding is to have retroactive effect. To the contrary, the court stated that Seagram \u201cis no longer good law,\u201d 491 U.S. at 343, 109 S.Ct. at 2502, which is the language of prospectivity, not retroactivity.\nSecond, while we agree with Stroh that American Trucking Assn\u2019s v. Smitk is not on all fours with the instant case, nonetheless we can glean valuable instruction from that case to guide us in- resolving the case at bar. For our purposes, the important point about American Trucking is that it did not overrule Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson, 404 U.S. 97, 92 S.Ct. 349, 30 L.Ed.2d 296 (1971). On the contrary, the Court in American Trucking used the decision in Chevron to reach its conclusion. See American Trucking, 496 U.S. at-, 110 S.Ct. at 2342-43.\nReading Chevron in the light of American Trucking, we make the following conclusions as to the nonretroactive effect of Healy II. Chevron\u2019s first criterion for nonretroactivity is: \u201c[T]he decision to be applied nonretroactively must establish a new principle of law, either by overruling clear past precedent on which litigants may have relied, or by deciding an issue of first impression whose resolution was not clearly foreshadowed.\u201d 404 U.S. at 106, 92 S.Ct. at 355 (citations omitted). In Healy II the court held, \u201c[T]o the extent that Seagram holds that retrospective affirmation statutes do not facially violate the Commerce Clause, it is no longer good law.\u201d 491 U.S. at 343, 109 S.Ct. at 2502.\nAs noted supra note 7, at 470, 816 P.2d at 1092, the parties disagree over whether the 1981 law was prospective or concurrent. Clearly the 1979 law was retrospective. The United States District Court for the District of New Mexico, in invalidating the 1981 law, considered the 1981 law concurrent, but opined that any price affirmation statute, however characterized, would be unconstitutional. Brown-Forman Corp. v. New Mexico Dep\u2019t of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 672 F.Supp. 1383, 1385-86 (D.N.M.1987).\nWe do not read the court\u2019s statement in Healy II, \u201c[T]o the extent that Seagram holds that retrospective affirmation statutes do not facially violate the Commerce Clause, it is no longer good law,\u201d 491 U.S. at 343, 109 S.Ct. at 2502, as meaning that some other type of price affirmation statute would be valid. The court\u2019s reasoning in Healy II swept a broad scythe of invalidity under the roots of all pricing affirmation statues. See, e.g., Healy II, 491 U.S. at 343 n. 15, 109 S.Ct. at 2503 n. 15 (quoting with approval the results of scholarship confirming that both prospective and retrospective price affirmation statutes unduly burden interstate commerce).\nMerely because Seagram was involved only with a retrospective statute, we do not hesitate to conclude that the 1981 law, however it may be characterized (concurrent versus prospective), was swept away in the flood that washed Seagram from the shores of still valid decisions. Therefore, for purposes of the first criterion of Chevron\u2019s nonretroactivity test, Healy II established a new principle of law.\nThe second Chevron criterion requires more analysis. By that criterion, the court stated, \u201c \u2018[W]e must * * * weigh the merits and demerits in each case by looking to the prior history of the rule in question, its purpose and effect, and whether retrospective operation will further or retard its operation.\u2019 \u201d 404 U.S. at 106-07, 92 S.Ct. at 355 (quoting Linkletter v. Walker, 381 .U.S. 618, 629, 85 S.Ct. 1731, 1738, 14 L.Ed.2d 601 (1965)). Linkletter was a criminal case in which the issue was whether the court\u2019s newly announced rule in Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643, 81 S.Ct. 1684, 6 L.Ed.2d 1081 (1961) (exclusion of evidence seized in violation of Fourth Amendment) was to be applied retrospectively. The court in Linkletter answered in the negative.\nThe court reasoned that \u201cMapp had as its prime purpose the enforcement of the Fourth Amendment through the inclusion of the exclusionary rule within its rights * * *. We cannot say that this purpose would be advanced by making the rule retrospective.\u201d 381 U.S. at 636-37, 85 S.Ct. at 1741-42. In making this determination, the court looked to the practical effects that a retroactive application of Mapp would have.\nThe misconduct of the police prior to Mapp has already occurred and will not be corrected by releasing the prisoners involved. Nor would it add harmony to the delicate state-federal relationship of which we have spoken as part and parcel of the purpose of Mapp. Finally, the ruptured privacy of the victims\u2019 homes and effects cannot be restored. Reparation comes too late.\nId. at 637, 85 S.Ct. at 1742.\nHaving read Chevron in the light of Linkletter, we next factor in the court\u2019s explanation of Chevron\u2019s second criterion as expressed in American Trucking. There the court stated, in determining whether the second criterion applied in that case:\n[T]he purpose of the Commerce Clause does not dictate retroactive application of [American Trucking Assn\u2019s, v. Scheiner, 483 U.S. 266, 107 S.Ct. 2829, 97 L.Ed.2d 226 (1987)], since such application would not tend to deter future free trade violations by the States. The [highway-use equalization tax at issue in American Trucking Assn\u2019s v. Smith] when enacted was entirely consistent with the [Court\u2019s prior cases allowing the tax], and it is not the Clause\u2019s purpose to prevent legitimate state taxation of interstate commerce.\n496 U.S. at-, 110 S.Ct. at 2332.\nApplying the court\u2019s construction of the second criterion for nonretroactivity as considered and applied in Chevron, Linkletter, and American Trucking Assn\u2019s v. Smith, we conclude that retroactive application of Healy II to the case at bar would serve no purpose advanced by the Commerce Clause. Especially in New Mexico, price affirmation requirements as they apply to beer have been essentially a dead letter since June 14, 1985. See supra note 5, at 470, 816 P.2d at 1092. No purpose of the Commerce Clause would be served by retroactively applying Healy II at this late date, as such application, to paraphrase American Trucking Assn\u2019s v. Smith, \"would not tend to deter future [acts of discrimination against interstate sellers of beer], and it is not the Clause\u2019s purpose to prevent legitimate [state regulation of] interstate commerce.\u201d 496 U.S. at-, 110 S.Ct. at 2332.\nAs the court reasoned in Linkletter, the damage done by Seagram, which upheld New York\u2019s retrospective price affirmation law, cannot now be undone. In overruling Seagram, the court in Healy II addressed itself, for our purposes, to a twofold evil: (1) potential and incidental involvement by one state in another state\u2019s pricing laws, or \u201cprice gridlock,\u201d as the court called it, 491 U.S. at 340, 109 S.Ct. at 2501, and (2) \u201cdiscrimination against brewers and shippers of beer engaged in interstate commerce.\u201d Id. at 340, 109 S.Ct. at 2501. The practical effect of these evils cannot now be alleviated; nor would a retroactive application of Healy II prevent such evils in the future. Consequently, applying Healy II retroactively would advance no purpose served by the Commerce Clause. We thus hold that Chevron\u2019s second criterion has been satisfied.\nWe turn now to Chevron\u2019s third criterion. In the present case, a number of other brewers have already settled the cases against them and have presumably paid penalties. To permit Stroh to be the only brewer to have evaded the strictures of the 1979 law would likely subject the Director to charges that he has dealt with these brewers inequitably. This could well result in the same potential threat that caused the court in American Trucking Assn\u2019s v. Smith to deny full retroactivity to its Scheiner holding. See American Trucking Assn\u2019s v. Scheiner, 483 U.S. 266, 107 S.Ct. 2829, 97 L.Ed.2d 226 (1987). In American Trucking Assn\u2019s v. Smith, the Court feared that a full, retroactively applied refund \u201ccould deplete the state treasury, thus threatening the State\u2019s current operations and future plans * * * [and could lead to] potentially significant administrative costs.\u201d 496 U.S. at-, 110 S.Ct. at 2333.\nWhile the threat to the state\u2019s purse may not be as significant here, the important point is that to single out Stroh for preferred treatment by holding Healy II retroactive only as to Stroh, would undoubtedly produce inequitable results and subject the State of New Mexico to liability. The Court\u2019s decision in McKesson Corp. v. Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco, 495 U.S. 18, 110 S.Ct. 2238, 110 L.Ed.2d 17 (1990) suggests that a state in New Mexico\u2019s position here may be liable to all those affected by its erroneous administration of a statute that has been found violative of the Commerce Clause and by its collection of any penalties thereunder, whether through settlement or otherwise. Hence, we are justified, as was the Court in American Trucking Assn\u2019s v. Smith, to regard any retroactive application of Healy II as potentially productive of both inequitable results and harm to the State of New Mexico, thus calling for nonretroactive application, under Chevron, of the Healy II holding.\nBy the same token, we are justified in rejecting the suggestion that our holding in United States Brewers Ass\u2019n \u201cwas clearly, palpably, or manifestly erroneous or unjust.\u201d See Moya, 107 N.M. at 248, 755 P.2d at 586. Thus, even if, as Stroh suggests, Moya and Reese carve exceptions out of established law of the case doctrine, we do not find that such exceptions apply here. The reason is simple. Neither our decision in United States Brewers Ass\u2019n, nor the trial court\u2019s ruling appealed in that case, were \u201cclearly, palpably, or manifestly erroneous,\u201d as the Supreme Court itself has only just held that Seagram is no longer good law. How could a decision based on the right law at that time now be a \u201cmanifestly erroneous\u201d decision?\nFurther, neither our decision in United States Brewers Ass\u2019n, nor the trial court\u2019s ruling appealed in that case, have produced an unjust result, when measured against the treatment accorded to the other brewers whose conduct was censured by the 1979 law. On the contrary, as we have reasoned above in our consideration of American Trucking Assn\u2019s v. Smith, to deny law of the case finality to United States Brewers Ass\u2019n would produce an injustice rather than undo one.\nIt should be kept in mind that exceptions to law of the case doctrine that are based on the \u201cclearly erroneous\u201d concept are usually relied on to reverse or set aside a previous decision. See, e.g., Note, Successive Appeals and the Law of the Case, 62 Harv.L.Rev. 286, 288 (1948) (\u201c[A]ll courts would probably reverse the prior ruling if convinced that it stated a bad rule of law and should be overruled\u201d). Such is not the question before us. There is no question but that United States Brewers Ass\u2019n is now \u201cbad law.\u201d Yet, the question before us is not whether that decision should be reversed or set aside, but whether the decision\u2019s error has retroactive significance under the facts of this case. We hold that it does not.\nTherefore, under the law of this case, Healy II does not invalidate the 1979 law. As the trial court correctly ruled, the law of this case is that dictated by our holding in United States Brewers Ass\u2019n and the underlying trial court decision appealed in that case. The recent case of James B. Beam Distilling Co. v. Georgia, \u2014 U.S. -, 111 S.Ct. 2439, 115 L.Ed.2d 481 (1991), notwithstanding, which we find inapplicable, we affirm the judgment below on the central issue discussed above.\nWe have reviewed Stroh\u2019s contentions as to damages and the repeal of the 1979 law and conclude that its contentions on those issues are without merit. Thus we affirm the trial court\u2019s judgment in its entirety.\nIT IS SO ORDERED.\nBACA, J., concurs.\nFRANCHINI, J., specially concurs.\nRANSOM and MONTGOMERY, JJ., dissent.\nFRANCHINI, Justice\n(specially concurring).\nI concur entirely in the rationale and result of Chief Justice Sosa\u2019s opinion. I write specially only to dispel any conjecture that the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court in James B. Beam Distilling Co. v. Georgia, \u2014 U.S. -, 111 S.Ct. 2439, 115 L.Ed.2d 481 (1991), in any way modifies or nullifies today\u2019s decision. The matter before this court is distinguishable from Beam in several respects.\nIn Beam, the Court considered the retroactive application of Bacchus Imports, Ltd. v. Dias, 468 U.S. 263, 104 S.Ct. 3049, 82 L.Ed.2d 200 (1984), to an action by a manufacturer of Kentucky Bourbon for a refund of taxes paid under a Georgia state law in effect prior to the Bacchus decision. Framing the question before it as \u201cwhether it is error to refuse to apply a rule of federal law retroactively after the case announcing the rule has already done so[,]\u201d Beam, \u2014 U.S. at-, 111 S.Ct. at 2446, the Court read Bacchus to hold that as to choice of law, its rule was to apply retroactively and deemed it inappropriate to deviate from that rule.\nHere, we consider whether Healy v. Beer Institute, 491 U.S. 324, 109 S.Ct. 2491, 105 L.Ed.2d 275 (1989) (Healy II), should be given retroactive effect. Chief Justice Sosa observes that \u201cthere is nothing in the Healy II opinion to indicate that the holding is to have retroactive effect.\u201d Supra at 471, 816 P.2d at 1093. Healy II is void of the indications of retroactivity that the Court found in Bacchus, thus inviting an analysis in this case distinct from the constrained analysis imposed in Beam.\nFurther, the Court concedes that \u201c[t]he grounds for our decision today are narrow. They are confined entirely to an issue of choice of law: when the Court has applied a rule of law to the litigants in one case it must do so with respect to all others not barred by procedural requirements or res judicata.\u201d Beam, \u2014 U.S. at -, 111 S.Ct. at 2448. Procedurally, the posture of the case before us is distinct from Beam. The petitioner in Beam brought its action in the wake of the Bacchus decision rendered in 1984, and had been involved in no litigation nor been subject to any decisions rendered regarding the challenged tax. The matter before us today has been in litigation since 1979, and Stroh is subject to our decision in United States Brewers Association v. Director of N.M. Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 100 N.M. 216, 668 P.2d 1093 (1983), appeal dismissed sub nom. United States Brewers Association v. Rodriguez, 465 U.S. 1093, 104 S.Ct. 1581, 80 L.Ed.2d 115 (1984), which we find to be controlling here as the law of the case. Application of the law of the case doctrine in this matter places this case squarely in the context of those cases beyond the narrow scope of the Beam decision.\nThe appropriate analysis here is the three-pronged criteria developed in Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson, 404 U.S. 97, 92 S.Ct. 349, 30 L.Ed.2d 296 (1971). The Court declines to apply the Chevron analysis in Beam claiming that \u201cprinciples of equality and stare decisis here [prevail] over any claim based on a Chevron Oil analysis.\u201d Beam, \u2014 U.S. at-, 111 S.Ct. at 2446. Significantly, Beam does not overrule Chevron. Given the prospective nature of Healy II, and the distinct procedural posture of Strohs in this case, Beam\u2019s rejection of the Chevron analysis in no way undermines the validity of the decision we render today. I therefore specially concur.\n. 1967 N.M. Laws ch. 269 \u00a7\u00a7 1-10 (formerly codified at NMSA 1978, \u00a7\u00a7 60-12-1 to -10) (Orig.Pamp. & Cum.Supp.1979), repealed by 1981 N.M. Laws ch. 39, 128. See infra note 2 at 2.\n. 1981 N.M. Laws ch. 39, \u00a7\u00a7 1-130, formerly codified at NMSA 1978, \u00a7\u00a7 60-8A-12 to 60-8A-19 (Cum.Supp.1981). The 1979 law was repealed in \u00a7 128.\n.The 1981 law also provided: \"Nothing contained [in the 1981 law] shall prevent differentials in price which make only due allowance for differences in state taxes and fees and in the actual cost of delivery.\u201d 1981 N.M.Laws ch. 39, \u00a7 67. There was also a severability clause in the act: \"If any part * * * of this act is invalid, the remainder * * * shall not be affected.\u201d Id., \u00a7 129. Stroh contends that this clause has the effect of saving the repealing section from constitutional infirmity and thus argues that if the pricing affirmation section of the 1981 law as written was unconstitutional, the repealing section nonetheless survived and thus effectively repealed the 1979 law. Therefore, Stroh argues, the 1979 law could not have revived during any period in which the 1981 law was unconstitutional. See discussion infra note 8, at-, 816 P.2d at 1100.\n. By this point in time, Stroh, which by now had acquired the assets of its predecessor in interest, had been substituted by our order as plaintiff-appellant in the appeal before us.\n. 1985 N.M. Laws ch. 5, \u00a7\u00a7 1-5; NMSA 1978, \u00a7\u00a7 60-8A-12 to -18 (Cum.Supp.1986).\n. Pending appeal before us, the Supreme Court decided Healy v. United States Brewers Association, 464 U.S. 909, 104 S.Ct. 265, 78 L.Ed.2d 248 (1983) (Healy I). In that decision the Court upheld the Second Circuit\u2019s invalidating Connecticut\u2019s prospective price affirmation statute.\n. Both Brown-Forman and Healy I, note 6, above, effectively invalidated statutes that obligated a seller to file an affirmation on price at the beginning of each calendar month. For this reason the Court considered the statutes \u201cprospective.\u201d The parties to the case at bar have disagreed over whether the 1981 law was \"prospective\u201d (Stroh) or \u201cconcurrent\" (the Director).\nThe Court in Brown-Forman all but held that any price affirmation statute, prospective or retrospective, was invalid. In Brown-Forman Corp. v. New Mexico Dep\u2019t of Alcoholic Beverages, 672 F.Supp. 1383 (D.N.M.1987), the court found that the 1981 law was \"concurrent,\u201d but on the strength of the Supreme Court\u2019s BrownForman decision opined that any price affirmation statute would fail to pass constitutional muster, and struck down the 1981 law. 672 F.Supp. at 1385-86. The United States District Court\u2019s prediction was vindicated by the Supreme Court\u2019s opinion in Healy v. Beer Institute, 491 U.S. 324, 109 S.Ct. 2491, 105 L.Ed.2d 275 (1989) (Healy II).\n. Stroh asserts that the trial court\u2019s ruling to the effect that the 1979 law \"provided a continuing basis for Stroh\u2019s liability * * * through February 21, 1985[,]\u201d can only mean that the trial court accepted the Director's argument that the 1979 law revived after the 1981 law was found unconstitutional. The Director's argument can have merit only if the repealing section of the 1981 law did not fall with the price affirmation requirement of that law. See supra note 3, at 469, 816 P.2d at 1091.\n. The Director reluctantly concedes that \"the 1979 law could probably fail under Healy II.\"\n. In American Trucking Assn\u2019s, v. Smith, 496 U.S. 167, 110 S.Ct. 2323, 110 L.Ed.2d 148 (1989), the truckers sought a refund of a highway-use equalization tax imposed by the state of Arkansas following the court\u2019s invalidation of unapportioned flat taxes in American Trucking Assn\u2019s, v. Scheiner, 483 U.S. 266, 107 S.Ct. 2829, 97 L.Ed.2d 226 (1987). In American Trucking Assn\u2019s v. Smith, the court, in a four-vote plurality opinion in which Justice Scalia concurred on other grounds, held that Scheiner did not have retroactive application, relying on the three criteria enunciated in Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson, 404 U.S. 97, 92 S.Ct. 349, 30 L.Ed.2d 296 (1971). Heretofore in our opinion, \"American Trucking\u2019\u2019 has meant American Trucking Assn\u2019s, v. Smith. From this point on in our opinion, we will distinguish between the two American trucking cases by including the respective names of the adverse parties, Smith or Scheiner, as appropriate.", "type": "majority", "author": "SOSA, Chief Justice. FRANCHINI, Justice" }, { "text": "MONTGOMERY, Justice\n(dissenting).\nThe question in this case is whether the plaintiff; Stroh, should be held liable on its preliminary injunction bond. That depends, of course, on the wording of the condition in the bond triggering the principal\u2019s (Stroh\u2019s) liability. As quoted in the majority opinion, the condition is that \u201cit * * * be finally decided by the Court that [the 1979 law] is valid * * The district court twice decided the law was valid; this Court affirmed one of those decisions; and the question before us now is whether the second decision should be affirmed or should be reversed on the ground that, after all, the 1979 law is not and was not valid.\nThe majority opinion answers this question in ways that I find wholly unsatisfactory. The majority ignores the purpose of a preliminary injunction bond, indemnifying the Director and the wholesalers from harm they have not suffered and penalizing Stroh for conduct that was entirely lawful and appropriate. The majority reveals a view of the law that I believe is fundamentally wrong and unrealistic. It misapplies the law of the case doctrine, in the face of supervening federal law and in violation of the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, and decides an issue of federal law \u2014 the \u201cretroactivity\u201d of a decision by the United States Supreme Court \u2014 in a way that is contrary to any reasoned application of controlling Supreme Court precedents on the retroactivity question. For all of these reasons, I respectfully dissent.\nI.\nOne way to approach the question before us is to consider the purpose of a preliminary injunction bond. Under our Rule 1-066(C), a preliminary injunction bond is given \u201cfor the payment of such costs and damages as may be incurred or suffered by any party who is found to have been wrongfully enjoined or restrained * * *.\u201d SCRA 1986, 1-066(C). Wright and Miller, describing the corresponding federal rule, Fed.R.Civ.P. 65(c), state that the purpose of the rule \u201cis to enable a restrained or enjoined party to secure indemnification for the costs * * * and pecuniary injury that may accrue during the period in which a wrongfully issued equitable order remains in effect.\u201d 11 C. Wright & A. Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure \u00a7 2954, at 523 (1973). This gives rise to two further questions: whether the preliminary injunction was wrongfully issued and whether the Director (or anyone else) suffered a pecuniary injury during the period in which the injunction remained in effect.\nA conclusion that the Director was wrongfully enjoined in 1979 can only be reached by taking the position that Stroh\u2019s conduct during the pendency of the injunction was contrary to law and that the Director had every right to enforce the statute. Similarly, to say that the Director (or the beer wholesalers, or beer retailers, or beer-consuming public) suffered a pecuniary injury during the 1979-85 period entails the proposition that the 1979 law was valid at that time and somehow became invalid later on when, in 1989, the Supreme Court decided Healy II. While it may be begging the question to frame the issue in these ways, doing so highlights for me the illogic and injustice of the majority\u2019s position that Stroh\u2019s conduct, which was perfectly consistent with the Commerce Clause in the Constitution as now authoritatively construed, was somehow wrongful and should not have been undertaken.\nHealy II construed the Commerce Clause to mean that, in the present context, state price-affirmation laws like the 1979 law impermissibly burden interstate commerce. Here was a company that took the same position from the very beginning, insisting that the law of this state (and many other states like it) could not require the company to sell its beer at a particular price pegged to the price in other states. The company\u2019s position was consistent with the mandate of the Constitution, and the company proceeded to sell its beer for whatever price it determined in the market. So did all the other brewers, at least as far as we are informed on this appeal. The other brewers ultimately decided that they wanted to buy their peace and get out of the litigation, so they paid some money to the state and then (since the law had been repealed) continued to sell their beer as they had before. Stroh, however, had the courage of its convictions and continued to assert the invalidity of the law, even though it had been upheld by this Court. Events proved that this Court had been wrong and Stroh had been right. Stroh had acted consistently with the Constitution and its conduct had conformed with the policy implemented in the Commerce Clause. To hold now that Stroh should be penalized for this conduct is, to my way of thinking, seriously inconsistent with the constitutional policy spelled out in Healy II.\nNot only does the majority opinion penalize Stroh for conduct that turned out to be completely lawful; it awards a windfall to both the Director and the wholesalers that I believe is entirely unjustified. The Director had no statutory entitlement to collect money (damages, reparations, penalties, or anything else) from a brewer who did not comply with the price-affirmation law. See NMSA 1978, \u00a7 60-12-9 (Orig.Pamp.) (repealed July 1, 1981) (violation of Discrimination in Selling Act is violation of Liquor Control Act; violator is also liable for suspension of license); NMSA 1978, \u00a7 60-10-39 (Orig.Pamp.) (repealed July 1, 1981) (violation of Liquor Control Act is misdemeanor punishable, if violator is corporation, by fine of not more than $1,000). The parties agreed to a bond as a condition for issuance of the preliminary injunction, but there was no potential liability to the Director secured by the bond; it was simply the quid pro quo for the Director\u2019s agreeing to the injunction.\nAs for the wholesalers, they became entitled to a share of any potential bond proceeds as the result of a deal they made with the Director, after they intervened, to divide any proceeds Stroh might have to pay under the bond. Absent the bond, the wholesalers would not have been entitled to collect money from Stroh by virtue of any statutory remedy; they would have had to sue for damages resulting from Stroh\u2019s charging a price higher than that prescribed by the 1979 law. Since, as things turned out, Stroh was charging a price permitted by federal law, the wholesalers were not harmed and cannot \u2014 in any meaningful sense, apart from the law\u2019s having previously (and erroneously) been declared \u201cvalid\u201d \u2014 claim to have suffered any damages.\nII.\nThe majority opinion displays a view of the nature of the law that I find altogether unacceptable. That is, the majority opinion treats \u201cthe law\u201d as it \u201cexisted\u201d in 1979-85 as some kind of immutable object, something like an architect\u2019s blueprint \u2014 \u201ca Platonic or ideal existence\u201d \u2014 against which parties\u2019 conduct is to be measured to see whether that conduct was right or wrong. According to this view, \u201cthe law\u201d contained in Seagram on the constitutionality of price-affirmation statutes made our own 1979 price-affirmation statute constitutional, Stroh\u2019s conduct unlawful, and the order enjoining the Director wrongful. When Healy II was decided, \u201cthe law\u201d was changed \u2014 the dimensions and shape of the blueprint were altered \u2014 so that, when assessed under the new configuration, Stroh\u2019s position suddenly became correct, even though it previously had been incongruent with the shape of \u201cthe law\u201d as it stood prior to Healy II.\nI cannot accept this reified conception of \u201cthe law\u201d as something that has one shape one day and another the next. The law is not a \u201cbrooding omnipresence in the sky,\u201d nor is it something chiseled into stone tablets somewhere. It is a set of precepts \u2014 of rules, principles, maxims, guidelines \u2014 that do change from time to time and that govern the conduct and relationships of citizens. The task of lawyers and judges is to determine which of these changing precepts should be applied to the resolution of a particular dispute and which should not\u2014 hopefully for good, policy-based reasons.\nThe precept laid down by Seagram was that price-affirmation laws were permissible. No one would think of applying this precept today; it has been overruled by Healy II. The precept in the latter case is that another, overarching precept \u2014 the \u201cnegative implication\u201d of the Commerce Clause \u2014 forbids this kind of statute. Whether we should apply the Healy II and Commerce Clause precepts depends on how we view certain other precepts, namely, those predicated on principles of finality, as embodied here in the law of the case doctrine, and those prescribing when a new decision should or should not be given \u201cretroactive\u201d effect.\nIII.\nTurning to the law of the case, I certainly agree that principles of finality of litigation are important and should be applied in the resolution of a dispute \u2014 except when there is good reason not to do so. The law of the case doctrine prevents relitigation of issues already determined; the policy underlying the doctrine is to conserve judicial and litigants\u2019 resources by avoiding repetitious litigation. In this case the doctrine does not apply, because no one is attempting to relitigate whether the 1979 law is or is not invalid under the Constitution. All parties concede, as they must, that price-affirmation statutes like the 1979 law are invalid. The only question is whether, despite this concession, the 1979 law should be deemed valid now because we held it valid before. In this situation, where a controlling decision by the United States Supreme Court on a matter of federal constitutional law has intervened since our previous decision, I believe that the discretionary policy embodied in the law of the case doctrine should not be invoked on a subsequent appeal in the same case as the one in which the original, erroneous decision was announced.\nAs we said in Reese in an opinion by Chief Justice (then Senior Justice) Sosa,\n\u201cThe doctrine of the law of the case is not a rule to which we are bound by any legislative enactment. In so far (sic) as we are bound, it is because we have so bound ourselves, or choose so to bind ourselves by our decisions * * *. [W]hen we conclude that a former decision is erroneous, and we still have the opportunity to correct it as affecting those parties whose interests are concerned in the original ruling, we should apply the law of the land rather than the law of the case * * *. [W]e feel that is better and more just to apply in this case what we find to be the law of the land.\u201d\n106 N.M. at 506, 745 P.2d at 1154 (quoting Farmers\u2019 State Bank v. Clayton Nat\u2019l Bank, 31 N.M. 344, 355-56, 245 P. 543, 548 (1925)). We went on to say that this was \u201cin keeping with the majority understanding of the doctrine of the law of the case,\u201d which we summarized as follows:\n\u201c[Sjince the doctrine of the law of the case is merely one of practice or court policy, and not of inflexible law, so that appellate courts are not absolutely bound thereby, but may exercise a certain degree of discretion in applying it, there are many holdings in which the courts have retreated from any inflexible rule requiring the doctrine to be applied regardless of error in the former decision, and it has been said that the doctrine should not be utilized to accomplish an obvious injustice, or applied where the former appellate decision was clearly, palpably, or manifestly erroneous or unjust.\u201d\nId. 106 N.M. at 507, 745 P.2d at 1155 (quoting 5 Am.Jur.2d Appeal and Error \u00a7 750, at 194 (1962)).\nFinally, we said:\nIt is obvious from the above that we may deviate from the law of the case doctrine in the situation before us if to apply the doctrine would result in a manifest injustice.\nId.; see also Moya, 107 N.M. at 248, 755 P.2d at 586 (\u201c[W]e will not apply that judicial doctrine [law of the case] here, where doing so might result in a manifestly unjust decision and where the essential facts have been altered by a substantial change in the evidence.\u201d).\nHere, there has not been a \u201csubstantial change in the evidence\u201d; there has been a substantial \u2014 indeed, a dispositive \u2014 change in the law. Applying the law of the case doctrine is, I believe, manifestly unjust.\nTo answer the majority\u2019s rhetorical question, \u201cHow could a decision based on the right law at that time now be a \u2018manifestly erroneous\u2019 decision?,\u201d I would point out, first, that the question further illustrates the law-as-an-object view criticized above. The \u201cright law\u201d in 1983, when our previous decision was rendered, was not some unchanging corpus of \u201cthe law\u201d; it was a correct application of the then controlling constitutional precept handed down in Seagram. But it was nonetheless erroneous\u2014 \u201cmanifestly erroneous,\u201d if you will \u2014 because Seagram turned out to be wrong and Stroh, who lost in 1983, turned out to be right. To say that this Court\u2019s previous decision was wrong is not a criticism of the Court in 1983; it is simply an acknowledgement that sometimes courts reach erroneous decisions by relying on erroneous precedents. This Court cannot, or should not, be faulted for lacking omniscience in 1983, but our lack of prescience then should not be turned into a reason now for refusing to acknowledge what has happened since and for holding that Stroh\u2014 even though it was right all along and ultimately was vindicated by the United States Supreme Court \u2014 has to pay nearly 20 million dollars for the privilege of being right.\nIV.\nThe majority holds that Stroh is liable on its bond and offers as the primary reason for this result the proposition that Healy II should not be applied retroactively. Once again, this illustrates the vigor with which the majority is willing to apply the reification theory discussed above: \u201cThe law\u201d as it stood in 1983 validated state price-affirmation statutes; in order for a statute like the 1979 law to be declared now to have been invalid then, it is necessary to hold that the new decision (Healy II) reached back in time and wrought some kind of change in the old law so as to render the statute invalid instead of valid. But we are deciding this case today, not in 1983, and not in 1966 when Seagram was decided. We should apply today\u2019s precepts today \u2014 unless there is some good reason for not doing so. To refuse to apply the precept of Healy II because it was not announced until after the statute was repealed in 1985 is simply another application of the approach that \u201cthe law\u201d has a certain shape at any given time and that shape cannot be changed by a subsequent event unless that event has \u201cretroactive\u201d effect.\nBut it is not necessary to philosophize about the nature of the law to reach the conclusion that Healy II should be given retroactive effect in this case; that conclusion follows readily from conventional analysis using accepted forms of legal reasoning. First, the Supreme Court has not held that its decision in Healy II is prospective only; in context, the quotation in the majority opinion (Seagram \u201cis no longer good law\u201d) simply means that, in light of the history recounted in the Supreme Court\u2019s opinion, the decision in Seagram, had to be overruled. Since the question of the retroactivity or nonretroactivity of a Supreme Court decision is an issue of federal law, James B. Beam Distilling Co. v. Georgia, \u2014 U.S. -, -, 111 S.Ct. 2439, 2443, 115 L.Ed.2d 481 (1991) (opinion of Souter, J.), I agree with the majority\u2019s implicit recognition that this is a point on which the Supreme Court has the last say; but I do not think it has said anything up to now. This Court is deciding this issue of federal law; and, with all respect, I think the majority decides it incorrectly.\nJudicial decisions interpreting the Constitution, like most judicial decisions, are usually given retroactive effect. Id. at -, 111 S.Ct. at 2443; United States v. Johnson, 457 U.S. 537, 542, 102 S.Ct. 2579, 2582, 73 L.Ed.2d 202 (1982) (\u201cBefore 1965, * * * \u2018both the common law and our own decisions recognized a general rule of retrospective effect for the cbnstitutional decisions of this Court * * * subject to [certain] limited exceptions.\u2019 \u201d) (quoting Robinson v. Neil, 409 U.S. 505, 507, 93 S.Ct. 876, 877, 35 L.Ed.2d 29 (1973)). Nevertheless, in civil cases there are situatins in which a decision interpreting the Constitution will not be applied retroactively. Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson lays out the factors or criteria to be utilized in determining when a decision will not be so applied. As Justice Franchini points out in his special concurrence, Chevron Oil was not overruled in the very recent decision in Beam. However, and with utmost respect, I believe that Justice Franchini is seriously mistaken, as is the majority, in his attempt to dispel any \u201cconjecture\u201d that Beam supports a result contrary to the one announced by the majority.\nAlthough there was no majority opinion in Beam, six of the nine Justices voted to hold the earlier decision in Bacchus retroactive to disputes arising and conduct occurring before the date of that decision. Justice Souter, writing for himself and Justice Stevens, took the position that principles of equality and stare decisis dictated application of a new rule, applied to the litigants in the case in which the rule is announced, to other, similarly situated litigants whose conduct antedated announcement of the new rule. They thus rejected the concept of \u201cmodified\u201d or \u201cselective\u201d prospectivity. (They refused, however, to \u201cspeculate as to the grounds or propriety of pure prospectivity.\u201d \u2014 U.S. at-, 111 S.Ct. at 2448.) Since the parties\u2019 conduct in Healy II occurred in 1981-84 and that of the litigants in this case in 1979-85, applying the rule in Healy II to the former set of litigants but not the latter would appear to work just the kind of discrimination disfavored by Justices Souter and Stevens in Beam. I therefore assume that they would apply Healy II retroactively in this case to hold that the 1979 law was invalid.\nJustice White concurred in the judgment in Beam, agreeing with Justice Souter that the litigants in Beam should have the benefit of the same rule as those in Bacchus, but he reaffirmed his view that \u201cpure\u201d prospectivity is proper in some cases. Id. \u2014 U.S. at-, 111 S.Ct. at 2449. Justice's Blackmun, Marshall, and Scalia also concurred in the judgment, expressing the view that both selective prospectivity and pure prospectivity are beyond the Court\u2019s power, id. at-, 111 S.Ct. at 2451 \u2014 that all decisions adjudicating a constitutional controversy should be applied retroactively.\nThe dissent in Beam, authored by Justice O\u2019Connor and joined by Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice Kennedy, would have applied the Chevron Oil analysis in deciding the retroactivity question before them. But the dissent\u2019s reasoning in Beam, consistent with Justice O\u2019Connor\u2019s approach in American Trucking Ass\u2019ns v. Smith, placed considerable \u2014 indeed, to my mind, controlling \u2014 emphasis in reaching this result on the desirability of respecting parties\u2019 reliance on an old rule of law and not upsetting settled expectations that may have arisen based on the old rule. In the present case, as I shall explain below in connection with American Trucking Ass\u2019ns v. Smith, this factor of reliance \u2014 of respecting settled expectations that may have grown up around Seagram \u2014 is altogether lacking. I surmise, therefore, that the dissenters in Beam (who, with Justice White, also composed the plurality in Smith) would apply the usual rule of full retroactivity in this case and find any exceptions, predicated on Chevron Oil, inapplicable.\nAs to Chevron Oil, I concede that two of the three factors it prescribed for determining when a new rule will be given prospective-only effect are partially satisfied by Healy II: The case did establish a new principle of law by overruling clear past precedent, and (since our price-affirmation laws were repealed in 1985) retrospective application of Healy II will not have any particular effect in furthering or retarding operation of the rule in that case (that price-affirmation laws act as an impermissible burden on interstate commerce). However, Chevron Oil\u2019s first factor is not fully satisfied, because the element of the parties\u2019 reliance is missing. See 404 U.S. at 106, 92 S.Ct. at 355 (\u201c[T]he decision to be applied nonretroactively must establish a new principle of law, either by overruling clear past precedent on which litigants may have relied * * *.\u201d) (emphasis added). Likewise, I cannot concede that Chevron Oil\u2019s second factor is fully satisfied, because, while holding Stroh liable on its bond may not deter other states from enacting price-affirmation laws, such action is flatly inconsistent with the policy expressed in the Commerce Clause as construed in Healy II.\nIt is over the third Chevron Oil factor, however, that I disagree most strenuously with the majority opinion. That third criterion is \u201cthe inequity imposed by retroactive application * * * [in order to avoid] the \u2018injustice or hardship\u2019 by a holding of nonretroactivity.\u201d 404 U.S. at 107, 92 S.Ct. at 355. In Chevron Oil, the plaintiff at least arguably had relied on the then current law in failing to file suit within the time prescribed by the state statute of limitations that was applicable as a result of a new Supreme Court decision, Rodrigue v. Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co., 395 U.S. 352, 89 S.Ct. 1835, 23 L.Ed.2d 360 (1969). The Court gave Rodrigue prospective effect only, because it would have been inequitable to deprive the plaintiff of his cause of action when he relied on the old law in failing to timely file his lawsuit. Similarly, in American Trucking Ass\u2019ns v. Smith the Court held that a decision invalidating a highway use equalization tax would not be applied with full retroactivity, because \u201cinvalidation of the State\u2019s HUE tax would have potentially disruptive consequences for the State and its citizens.\u201d 496 U.S. at-, 110 S.Ct. at 2333. Justice O\u2019Connor\u2019s plurality opinion focused on the possibility that retroactive invalidation of the tax might, if a refund were required, \u201cdeplete the state treasury, thus threatening the State\u2019s current operations and future plans,\u201d and entail \u201cpotentially significant administrative costs.\u201d Id. \u201c[T]he inequity of unsettling actions taken in reliance on those precedents [i.e., previously established precedents overruled by a later decision] is apparent.\u201d Id. Justice O\u2019Connor employed the same rationale in her dissent in Beam. See \u2014 U.S. at-, 111 S.Ct. at 2452 (\u201cBy not applying a law-changing decision retroactively, a court respects the settled expectations that have built up around the old law.\u201d).\nThis factor is altogether absent in the present case. At oral argument, counsel for the Director conceded that the only instance of reliance in this case was that our state legislature presumably relied on Seagram in enacting the 1979 law. (And, of course, this Court relied on Seagram in upholding that law.) But I do not believe that the reliance of a legislative body (or a court) is the kind of reliance American Trucking is talking about. In protecting the reliance interests of parties to a transaction or a lawsuit \u2014 in refusing to upset settled expectations of litigants or others\u2014 the courts are concerned about protecting the rights (or interests, or hopes, or desires) of the parties to a transaction or a dispute, which may include governmental bodies but does not include (except as reflected in actions taken in reliance on a former law, such as collection of taxes) law-prescribing assemblies or tribunals.\nAs I have said, there is no suggestion in this case that anyone relied on the 1979 price-affirmation law in doing anything. Stroh\u2019s predecessor sued for a declaration that the law was invalid; the Director defended; the parties worked out an agreement under which the Director would not enforce the law pending a determination of its validity and on condition that the plaintiffs would pay the difference between what they might charge under the injunction and what they could charge under the law if it were valid. No one changed his, her, or its conduct in reliance on anything that anyone else did \u2014 except, of course, that the wholesalers paid the brewers more for beer than they would have paid in the absence of the injunction, assuming the law was valid. All of this is long past; the law was repealed after a few years and ultimately held not valid, and so it turned out that the wholesalers paid a permissible price for their beer, even though they still complain that the price charged by the brewers in the 1979-85 timeframe was in some way unfair.\nNone of this is reviewed or analyzed by the majority in any way. Instead, the opinion offers the wholly speculative possibilities (1) that the wholesalers who decided to settle rather than litigate would somehow be treated unjustly if Stroh\u2019s position that the 1979 law was invalid were now upheld by this Court, and (2) that the state might somehow be liable to the settling wholesalers if, notwithstanding the fact that the 1979 law is now clearly invalid, Stroh were exonerated from liability on its bond.\nI reject as entirely unfounded the notion that the state could incur any liability whatsoever to the brewers who settled their potential liability under the preliminary injunction bonds by paying money to the state in exchange for a release from any further liability and in order to avoid the expenses, hazards, and inconveniences of continued litigation. The McKesson case does not even come close to suggesting that such a settlement (especially where, as here, the state has no authority under the statute to collect any money from the settling parties in the first place) might give rise to liability on the part of the state or otherwise result in inequitable consequences to other parties. As for those other parties, I regard it as highly dubious to suggest that parties who voluntarily settled litigation to get a contingent liability off their books (and for whatever other reasons they may have settled) would somehow be treated unfairly if we recognized that the party who persisted in its constitutional challenge and who ultimately was vindicated was not liable for the penal sum in its bond.\nV.\nIn the words of both Moya and Reese, the majority has reached a result that is \u201cmanifestly unjust.\u201d It has done so by declaring that a statute, the 1979 law\u2014 which the majority itself says has clearly been \u201cfinally invalidated\u201d by an intervening decision of the United States Supreme Court \u2014 is and was valid because we previously ruled it so, even though \u201c[tjhere is no question but that [our prior ruling] is now \u2018bad law.'\u201d By so holding, the majority not. only misapplies the law of the case doctrine; it does so in a way that contravenes supervening federal law and thus violates the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. See Henry v. City of Rock Hill, 376 U.S. 776, 84 S.Ct. 1042, 12 L.Ed.2d 79 (1964); Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1, 78 S.Ct. 1401, 3 L.Ed.2d 5 (1958); State v. Lewis, 543 N.E.2d 1116 (Ind.1989); Brunner Enters. v. Department of Revenue, 452 So.2d 550 (Fla.1984); Townsend v. Clover Bottom Hosp. & School, 560 S.W.2d 623 (Tenn.), cert. denied, 436 U.S. 948, 98 S.Ct. 2854, 56 L.Ed.2d 790 (1978).\nThe majority compounds this error by determining incorrectly a question of federal law: whether the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in Healy II should be limited to prospective-only effect and not applied in the circumstances of this case. While not a violation of the Supremacy Clause, this is simply an erroneous ruling on an issue of federal law which does a grave injustice to the losing party before us and confers an unwarranted windfall on the parties who have prevailed.\nI therefore dissent.\nRANSOM, J., concurs.\n. Healy v. Beer Inst., 491 U.S. 324, 109 S.Ct. 2491, 105 L.Ed.2d 275 (1989).\n. The Supreme Court said, for example: \"[T]he practical effect of this affirmation law, in conjunction with the many other beer pricing and affirmation laws that have been or might be enacted throughout the country, is to create just the kind of competing and interlocking local economic regulation that the Commerce Clause was meant to preclude.\" Healy II, 491 U.S. at 337, 109 S.Ct. at 2500.\n.The Director apparently did not know what to do with the money collected from the other brewers when they settled with him, so the settlement agreements provided simply that the settlement proceeds were to be held in trust by the Attorney General and distributed \"for the benefit of the citizens of New Mexico as the Attorney General may deem appropriate.\"\n. Great Northern Ry. v. Sunburst Oil & Ref. Co., 287 U.S. 358, 365, 53 S.Ct. 145, 148, 77 L.Ed. 360 (1932) (Cardozo, J.).\n. Joseph E. Seagram & Sons v. Hostetter, 384 U.S. 35, 86 S.Ct. 1254, 16 L.Ed.2d 336 (1966).\n. Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen, 244 U.S. 205, 222, 37 S.Ct. 524, 531, 61 L.Ed. 1086 (1917) (Holmes, J., dissenting).\n. See the majority opinion, ante, footnote 9.\n. Reese v. State, 106 N.M. 505, 745 P.2d 1153 (1987).\n. Moya v. Catholic Archdiocese, 107 N.M. 245, 755 P.2d 583 (1988).\n. The anomaly in this assertion was manifested by the Director\u2019s position in the court below, in which he conceded that the 1981 law was unconstitutional and yet, in practically the same breath, argued that the 1979 law was valid! He took this glaringly inconsistent position because, by affirming the invalidity of the 1981 law with its 1979-law repealer, he could claim that the earlier law remained in effect until its later repeal in 1985 and thus, as the district court ruled, \"provided a continuing basis for Stroh\u2019s liability.\u201d Like the majority, I do not reach the questions whether the severability clause in the 1981 law left the repealer intact and whether, assuming the later law was invalid, the earlier law \"revived\" when the later law fell. For all practical purposes, as reflected in both the majority opinion and this dissent, Stroh\u2019s liability under its bond is the same under either the 1979 law or the 1981 law.\n. 404 U.S. 97, 92 S.Ct. 349, 30 L.Ed.2d 296 (1971).\n. The majority\u2019s reliance on Linkletter v. Walker, 381 U.S. 618, 85 S.Ct. 1731, 14 L.Ed.2d 601 (1965), is puzzling. The rationale of that case was severely undercut in Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, 107 S.Ct. 708, 93 L.Ed.2d 649 (1987), in which the Court held that a new constitutional rule, in criminal cases, applies retroactively to all cases pending on direct review or not yet final. See id. at 320-22, 107 S.Ct. at 711-13.\n. Bacchus Imports, Ltd. v. Dias, 468 U.S. 263, 104 S.Ct. 3049, 82 L.Ed.2d 200 (1984).\n. 496 U.S. 167, 110 S.Ct. 2323, 110 L.Ed.2d 148 (1990).\n. American Trucking Ass\u2019ns v. Scheiner, 483 U.S. 266, 107 S.Ct. 2829, 97 L.Ed.2d 226 (1987).\n. McKesson Corp. v. Division of Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco, 496 U.S. 18, 110 S.Ct. 2238, 110 L.Ed.2d 17 (1990).", "type": "dissent", "author": "MONTGOMERY, Justice" } ], "attorneys": [ "John T. Porter, Albuquerque, White & Case, John J. McAvoy, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant, The Stroh Brewery Co.", "John B. Bigelow, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, for defendant-appellee Dept, of Alcoholic Beverage Control.", "O.R. Adams, Albuquerque, for intervenors-appellees." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "816 P.2d 1090\nThe STROH BREWERY COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DIRECTOR OF the NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL, Defendant-Appellee, and Gallup Sales Company, Pucci Distributing Company, Pecos Sales Company and State Beer Distributors, Inc., Intervenors-Appellees.\nNo. 19547.\nSupreme Court of New Mexico.\nAug. 12, 1991.\nRehearing Denied Sept. 13, 1991.\nJohn T. Porter, Albuquerque, White & Case, John J. McAvoy, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant, The Stroh Brewery Co.\nJohn B. Bigelow, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, for defendant-appellee Dept, of Alcoholic Beverage Control.\nO.R. Adams, Albuquerque, for intervenors-appellees." }, "file_name": "0468-01", "first_page_order": 502, "last_page_order": 517 }