Illinois passes liquor control act amendments to clarify and expand in-state delivery and shipping rights for retail liquor licensees (stores, bars, etc.)
Illinois Senate Bill 54 from the state legislature’s last session had a long and...
Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Regulatory and Legal Updates
SCOTUS denies Cert. in Lebamoff 6th-Circuit wine retailer shipping case.
This morning, the United States Supreme Court denied the petition for certiorari filed by...
Winery raising funds without allegedly disclosing that it hadn’t received licensure yet nets ex parte cease-and-desist order from state regulators. A cautionary lesson for wineries, breweries, and distilleries raising start-up capital.
The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation recently issued an ex parte cease-and-desist order to...
Last day for bars and restaurants (and others) to apply for round-2 Illinois Business Interruption Grants h/t to the Hospitality Business Association of Chicago (links included)
Just got an important reminder from the Hospitality Business Association of Chicago. Today is...
Out-state Illinois Winery Shipper’s licensees’ must remit state and local taxes on direct-to-consumer wine sales come January 1. Note: collecting local taxes proves taxation is not a reason to argue against retailers’ interstate commerce in alcohol.
The country-spanning impact of South Dakota v. Wayfair just hit the Illinois direct-to-consumer wine...
A welcome opinion based on common sense trademark analysis as Molson Coors wins fizzy hard seltzer name argument against Brizzy maker at 5th Circuit.
The saga over “fizzy” named hard seltzers Brizzy and Vizzy added another chapter in...
Massachusetts cannabis home delivery language is a model for other states.
On Monday the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission voted to approve language finally rolling out...
States’ measures to favor in-state residents in cannabis licensing are the new Commerce Clause battleground.
Back in May of this year the Commerce Clause provided a substantial victory for...
SCOTUS denies Wal-Mart’s petition for cert. over Texas ban keeping public corporations from holding retail liquor licenses
Yesterday, the Supreme Court denied the petition for certiorari that Wal-Mart had filed in...
Molson and Anheuser win full dismissal of Mountain Crest (Minhas) antitrust lawsuit.
You’ll recall that the court had recently dismissed this matter finding that Minhas’s second...
Hyperbolic complaint by a handful of perfect-scoring applicants stalls re-scoring efforts for those that didn’t receive fair scoring and notice in the ongoing first round of Illinois cannabis dispensary hopefuls.
Omitting facts rarely ends well for people, let alone attorneys. Likewise, disregarding the law...
Illinois Liquor Control Commission adopts helpful new regulation to clarify the process for bars, restaurants, and liquor stores in transferring alcohol inventory to other retailers.
The good folks at the ILCC officially (this has been in the works for...
