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The New York State liquor tax law of 1896, also known as the Raines law, was authored by the New York State Senator John Raines and adopted in the New York State Legislature on March 23, 1896. [1] It took effect on April 1, 1896, was amended in 1917 and repealed in 1923.
John Raines (May 6, 1840, in Geneva, Ontario County, New York – December 16, 1909, in Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He authored the 1896 Raines Law , which prohibited liquor sales on Sundays, except in hotels, which had the unintended consequence of fostering prostitution .
United States v. Raines, 362 U.S. 17 (1960), was a United States Supreme Court decision relating to civil rights. The Court overturned the ruling of a U.S. District Court, which had held that a law authorizing the Federal Government to bring civil actions against State Officials for discriminating against African-Americans citizens was unconstitutional.
Blue laws banned saloons from selling alcoholic beverages on Sundays, but the Raines law of 1896 permitted hotels to do so. When saloon keepers responded by creating bedrooms, which were then used for prostitution, the Committee demanded inspections of premises to distinguish legitimate hotels from saloons.
Raines law; John J. Raskob; George Remus; Repeal of Prohibition in the United States; Republican Citizens Committee Against National Prohibition; Rachel Rodriguez-Williams; Rum Patrol; Rum row; Rum-running; Rum-running in Windsor, Ontario
Hazel Jane Raines (1916–1956), pioneering aviator, first woman licensed pilot in Georgia; Howell Raines (born 1943), former executive editor of The New York Times; John Raines (1840–1909), New York politician, namesake of the Raines law; Matthew Raines (born 1982), Pathologist and U.S. Air Force officer; Ron Raines (born 1949), American ...
Raines Corner, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Monroe County, West Virginia, United States; Raines law, the New York State liquor tax law of 1896 authored by the New York State Senator John Raines; Raines v. Byrd, a United States Supreme Court case; Raines, Tennessee, a suburb on the southern boundary of Memphis, Tennessee
Raines v. Byrd , 521 U.S. 811 (1997), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held individual members of Congress do not automatically have standing to litigate the constitutionality of laws affecting Congress as a whole.