Since the end of prohibition, Texas has prevented huge corporations from selling retail hard liquor inside the state—laws Wal-Mart desperately want to change through a federal complaint it has filed in an Austin court. But not if Alan Waldrop and his client have anything to do with it.

Waldrop recently won a ruling before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Court that allows the Texas Package Stores Association, a trade group of state-permitted liquor stores, to intervene in Wal-Mart v. Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, in order to oppose the corporate giant’s ambitions.

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