TTB Gets the Permit Wrong—and the Distillery Pays the Price
An agency should not escape an otherwise valid negligence claim merely by sending a...
Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Regulatory and Legal Updates
Same Bottle, Different Deal: What Southern Glazer’s FTC Settlement Means for Wholesalers
Part 2 of 2: The price-discrimination settlement. A wholesaler’s price book can show the...
Marketing Billbacks and Dirty Tricks: What Wholesalers Should Learn from Southern Glazer’s NPA
Part 1 of 2: The non-prosecution agreement. A supplier’s approval of a marketing billback...
Can a Beer Supplier Take Decades of Goodwill for Free? Coors’ 90-Day Fight
What good is a statutory right to cure a breach if a supplier can...
Buy Local—or No Liquor License? New York’s Product-Mix Demands Face a Federal Challenge
Manufacturers and distributors spend plenty of time convincing retailers to carry their products. But...
An Affiliate’s Supplier Permit Put a Distributor’s License at Risk. The Court Rejected Automatic Revocation.
A supplier certificate in one company and a wholesale license in another can look...
A $31.8 Million Exit: Sixth Circuit Lets a Cannabis Buyer Avoid Its Intra-State Supply Contract Verdict
If a licensed cannabis business agrees to buy a grower’s harvest and then backs...
New Distributor, Wrong Courthouse: Wine Franchise Fight Kicked Back to State Court – But Could Have Been Avoided
Can a supplier line up a replacement distributor and then argue that the replacement...
Ohio Wine Shipping Case: Circuit Split or Sour Grapes?
There is an old move in appellate practice: when the facts do not go...
Ohio’s Hemp Law Runs Into the Dormant Commerce Clause: Federal Court Blocks Enforcement of S.B. 56 Against Hemp Companies
Ohio can regulate hemp. Ohio can regulate intoxicating cannabinoids. Ohio can decide that certain...
Maryland’s Beer Delivery Case Shows Why “Employee Delivery” May Not Save Discriminatory Alcohol Shipping Laws
States defending local alcohol privileges often try to draft around the dormant Commerce Clause...
IDOR’s Proposed Liquor Tax Overhaul: A Return to the Same Unconstitutional Scheme the Illinois Supreme Court Already Struck Down
Illinois liquor distributors, importing distributors, manufacturers, RTD cocktail producers, and alcohol brand owners should...
