Online Wine Retailer Wins Case Against False Claims Assertions Over Failure to Collect Local Taxes For Sales
In a recent win for online wine retailers (not wineries selling direct), the Illinois...
Category: Craft Beer
Example Agreements: Spirits Manufacturing Agreement (Licensing) – Contract Distilling With Enhanced “Flash” Aging
This recent dispute between a distiller and a company looking to contract manufacture a...
Anheuser Wins Again Pursuing Claims Against Ex-Employee Associated With Alcohol Content False Advertising Suits
In case you don’t remember, back in 2013 we shed some light on a...
Craft Brewers Need to Watch This Texas Dispute Over Getting Money From Wholesalers For Selling Distribution Rights – State Files Opening Brief in Appeal of Challenge to Texas Brewer’s Ability to Sell Their Distribution Rights for Payment
It used to be that brewers signed with wholesalers and gave up their self-distribution...
Example Agreements: Licensing Your Brand To Create Chackies For Your Distributors and Customers
People love to wear branded stuff. I accept this as a general truth. The...
Kona Brewing Sued For Falsely Advertising It’s Made in Hawaii
Kona Brewing prides itself on its Hawaiian origins. Take a look at that website,...
Final Briefs Filed as Craft Brewers’ Fight to Terminate Distribution Agreements in Ohio Rolls On
When last we wrote about the ongoing attempts by Great Lakes Brewing and Boston...
A Win for Rational Thought In Alcohol Advertising – 8th Circuit Asks District Court to Consider Whether There’s A Correlation Between Alcohol Advertising Regulations and Their Intended Objectives In Order to Satisfy First Amendment Scrutiny
It’s not just that some 20th Century laws are not equipped to handle 21st...
Is it really a “tied-house” if your alcoholic beverage category isn’t sold by the retailer?
In a recent and interesting challenge to the three-tiered system’s prohibition on “tied-houses” a...
Is Your Label Protected? Label Art Copyright Can Provide Some Added Protection Where Trademark Might Fail
Château Mouton Rothschild exemplifies the trend of label “as” art, perhaps even to the...
Challenge to Retailer Crowler Ban in Texas Has Another Win – And Court Finds Regulatory FAQs are Rulings that Can be Challenged
Growler/crowler laws and regulations across the country are a hodgepodge of nonsensical restrictions on...
You Should Be Paid For Your Self-Distribution Rights – and Texas Agrees!
In 2013, distributors lobbied and won a concession as part of a generally...
