Category: Brewery

new regulations for advertising and labeling malt beverages (craft beer), wine, and distilled spirits

Are you ready for the TTB’s new alcoholic beverage labeling and advertising regs that define closed packaging and let you accentuate alcohol content statements? (New TTB advertising and labeling rules Part 4)

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February 5, 2019

As promised, we are plodding through the TTB’s “Notice No. 176” – the “Modernization...

fingerprint Illiois Biometric information privacy act

Illinois Supreme Court decision means Illinois breweries, wineries, and distilleries collecting employees’ fingerprints without advance consent may face lawsuits for big money

Brewery / Chicago / Distillery / Opinions / Retailers / Statutes / Suits / Wine
February 1, 2019

It’s the same with retinal scans, iris scans, voiceprints, palm prints, hand scans, face...

Rogue Brewery Trademark lawsuit results in no insurance coverage for defendant who wanted insurer to defend it under commercial policy's advertising injury coverage

Pub sued for infringing Rogue brewery trademark learns why it’s best to have insurance in place before posting on social media about your new business logo

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January 31, 2019

If you didn’t eat at the Gone Rogue Pub in Boise, Idaho, before the...

Convenience stores lose class action against Anheuser-Busch over alleged scheme of brewer giving favored stores excessive coupons netting them a cheaper price for beer

Beer / Brewery / Brewing / Distribution / Opinions / Retailers / Sales / Suits
January 30, 2019

A group of aggrieved convenience stores wanted certification as a class against Anheuser-Busch over...

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Court denies motion for First Amendment relief in TTB’s failure to approve COLAs during shutdown as moot

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January 29, 2019

You guessed it. Atlas Brew Works Certificate of Label Approval COLA First Amendment Lawsuit...

TTB expedited delivery as present times show labels from December 13, 2019 are being processed

TTB expedites Atlas Brew Works’ Precious One keg collar in First Amendment challenge to COLA process during shutdown

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January 29, 2019

The squeaky wheel doesn’t always get the grease, but you’ve got a better chance...

First Amendment labeling suit to prohibit COLA enforcement during shutdown set for status today.

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January 28, 2019

The lawsuit filed by Atlas Brew Works that we’ve been tracking here at Libation...

Book cover of Glass and gavel a book about alcohol and the supreme court

Modern Law Library interviews Nancy Maveety on her new book about the Supreme Court’s history with alcohol

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January 25, 2019

The American Bar Association’s podcast, the Modern Law Library, has posted episode that alcohol...

What questions should you ask about your advertising and labels before making them public?

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January 23, 2019

Beverage producers should take a lesson from the recent media hullabaloo over Hearst Communications’...

Beer with no label - labeling shutdown with TTB

U.S. files response in craft brewery’s First Amendment case for TTB’s failure to grant COLAs during shutdown; brewer replies (we’ve got the briefs – argument is this afternoon)

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January 22, 2019

Recap: For those of you not following the fun, Atlas Brew Works out of...

BREAKING: We’ve got the oral argument audio in important SCOTUS liquor case for you – Tennessee Wine & Spirits Retailers v. Blair (Byrd)

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January 18, 2019

Fresh from the United States Supreme Court here is the oral argument audio in...

What the new Illinois “of value” regulations say about tap takeovers and donations to charitable causes. (Illinois’s new “of value” standards Part 3.)

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January 18, 2019

You can read and download the full text of the of new Illinois “of...