Here’s full audio of the 5th Circuit’s Wal-Mart v. Texas oral argument over Texas’s ban on publicly traded companies holding certain liquor licenses.
We’ve previously discussed and uploaded the briefs for you in this case Wal-Mart is...
Category: Commerce Clause
Farm wineries’ 8th Circuit Commerce Clause case challenges a state licensing law requiring their wines contain a majority of in-state grapes. BONUS: We’ve got the briefs and oral argument for you.
Two Minnesota farm wineries brought a challenge to a Minnesota Farm Winery Act restriction...
Ignoring the circling Byrd, Court denies Missouri citizens the right to receive direct wine shipments from out-of-state retailers citing Southern Wine and Spirits precedent
Back in November we wrote about the recent 7th circuit decision in Lebamoff v....
Challenges to discriminatory and protectionist liquor distribution and sales laws continue in spite of pending SCOTUS case as wine importing challenge in CA gets hearing on motion to dismiss
In a case that I was sure would be put off until after the...
Final briefs filed in 5th Circuit Texas ABC Challenge to Wal-Mart’s Commerce Clause win against prohibition of publicly traded corporations obtaining certain liquor licenses. (Bonus, we’ve got all the briefs for you.)
Back in November we wrote about the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Comission’s appeal challenging an...
Here are the Respondents’ briefs filed in Byrd (Tennessee Wine & Spirits Retailers Assoc. v. Blair)
The two respondents appointed to represent the interests of the plaintiff back at the...
Florida latest battleground for direct to consumer shipment dormant commerce clause challenge
This great piece by the folks over at wine-searcher.com details the recent inception of...
A blow to three-tiers. 7th Circuit sides with expansion of Granholm – allowing lawsuit challenging Illinois’s ban on direct shipping of liquor, beer, and spirits from out-of-state retailers.
“The Amendment gives states the power to structure their liquor distribution systems; it does...
Initial brief filed with SCOTUS in Byrd v. Tennessee
The Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association – the association of in-state retailers that...
Wal-Mart is waging a different fight against irrational liquor laws in the Fifth Circuit that offers alternatives to Byrd. (With links to 5th Circ. Briefs)
A fundamental tenet of the of fairness under the Constitution is that the States...
Michigan court grants stay of injunction forcing Michigan to allow out-of-state retailers to sell wine directly to customers until Supreme Court Decides Byrd.
Judge Tarnow has granted a stay of his injunction in the Lebamoff case prohibiting...
3-tiers crumbling? Michigan forced to allow out-of-state wine retailers to ship direct; avoiding Michigan’s 3-tier system.
The slow dismantling of protectionist state statutes prohibiting interstate shipment of alcohol advances....
