Video: Supreme Court Ruling Overturns Law Involving Liquor Elections

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – The Alabama Supreme Court is siding with ministers and overturning a state law that let some towns vote on whether to allow alcohol sales.

The justices ruled Friday that the 2009 law is unconstitutional since it prohibited residents in Blount, Clay and Randolph counties from holding such votes.

Cities in Alabama’s 64 other counties with at least 1,000 residents are allowed to hold wet-dry votes, and the court says the law is invalid since it carves out the three counties as an exception.

The ruling comes in a lawsuit involving two ministers from Blount County. The men intervened in a court case over whether the city of Oneonta should get to legalize alcohol sales.

Dozens of cities could be affected by the decision, but the court didn’t say which ones.

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